[Gllug] compiling 2.5 kernels

[Nix]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Dave Jones uttered the following:
> AFAICR, concatenation of such things is deprecated in the C99 standard.

This is because __func__ is an identifier in C99 doing pretty much what
the __FUNCTION__ macro always did in GCC; so, to encourage people to
change their code so it can change to use __func__ in due course, and to
avoid duplicating code in cpplib and GCC proper, *and* because it's
really bloody ugly to work out what function you're in from the
preprocessor, especially when you're passing token streams around and
can't engage in the `pass magic to the compiler' tricks that cccp used
to do...

... well, given all of that, moving it to the parsing stage (and turning
it into a variable from a macro) just seemed like the Right Thing to do.

> unfortunatly it was one of those special development meetings that
> tend to happen in pubs. *hic*

Everything's so *clear* while you're discussing it...

... it's a shame they don't have computers in pubs, so you can implement
it there too. Actually it's probably a good thing; it would bring a new
meaning to morning-after embarrassment when you woke up and saw your
code in the cold light of morning :)

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