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Due to internal differences between LLVM and GCC the current implementation for the CO-RE macros does not fit GCC parser, as it will optimize those expressions even before those would be accessible by the BPF backend. As examples, the following would be optimized out with the original definitions: - As enums are converted to their integer representation during parsing, the IR would not know how to distinguish an integer constant from an actual enum value. - Types need to be kept as temporary variables, as the existing type casts of the 0 address (as expanded for LLVM), are optimized away by the GCC C parser, never really reaching GCCs IR. Although, the macros appear to add extra complexity, the expanded code is removed from the compilation flow very early in the compilation process, not really affecting the quality of the generated assembly. Signed-off-by: Cupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240213173543.1397708-1-cupertino.miranda@oracle.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.