Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure

From	Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure
Date	2016-03-16 22:10 +0100
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:41:36 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:

> > The scripts name also doesn't describe gcc plugins well.
> 
> With my suggestion "scripts/gcc-plugins/",
> the sub-directory name describes it very well.
> 
> 
> > Plugins take part in the image building process
> > in a different way than these tools and scripts do.
> > Since there doesn't seen to be a good place for compiler plugins, maybe we should create a new toplevel directory
> > called "build". Compiler plugins and other existing build tools could live there. What do you think?
> 
> In my understanding, they are plug-in'ed into the cross-compiler that
> compiles vmlinux.
> 
> If so, GCC plugins should be happy in "scripts/"
> because Kbuild descends into "scripts/" before building any objects for vmlinux.

Ok, I'll move them under scripts/ in the next patch set.

-- 
Emese

Thread

[PATCH v5 0/5] Introduce GCC plugin infrastructure Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 00:10 +0100
  [PATCH v5 3/5] Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC plugin Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 00:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC plugin Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-03-11 07:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC plugin Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-03-14 22:10 +0100
  [PATCH v5 5/5] Add sancov plugin Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 00:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] Add sancov plugin Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-03-07 22:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] Add sancov plugin Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 22:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] Add sancov plugin Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2016-03-08 12:00 +0100
  [PATCH v5 1/5] Shared library support Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 00:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] Shared library support Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-03-07 22:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] Shared library support Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 22:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] Shared library support Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-03-11 07:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] Shared library support Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-03-14 21:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] Shared library support Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-03-16 09:00 +0100
  Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org> - 2016-03-09 10:10 +0100
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-03-09 22:00 +0100
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 23:10 +0100
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 23:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-03-11 07:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-03-14 22:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-03-16 08:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> - 2016-03-16 22:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu> - 2016-03-14 22:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-03-16 08:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu> - 2016-03-16 14:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> - 2016-03-17 05:20 +0100

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