include/linux/compiler*.h: make compiler-*.h mutually exclusive
Commit cafa0010 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6") recently exposed a brittle part of the build for supporting non-gcc compilers. Both Clang and ICC define __GNUC__, __GNUC_MINOR__, and __GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ for quick compatibility with code bases that haven't added compiler specific checks for __clang__ or __INTEL_COMPILER. This is brittle, as they happened to get compatibility by posing as a certain version of GCC. This broke when upgrading the minimal version of GCC required to build the kernel, to a version above what ICC and Clang claim to be. Rather than always including compiler-gcc.h then undefining or redefining macros in compiler-intel.h or compiler-clang.h, let's separate out the compiler specific macro definitions into mutually exclusive headers, do more proper compiler detection, and keep shared definitions in compiler_types.h. Fixes: cafa0010 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6") Reported-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Suggested-by: Eli Friedman <efriedma@codeaurora.org> Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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