CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS: GCC plugins

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS has multiple definitions:

GCC plugins found in scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS:

• prompt: GCC plugins
• type: bool
• depends on: ( CONFIG_HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS ) && ( CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC ) && ($( CONFIG_success,test -e $( CONFIG_shell,$( CONFIG_CC ) -print-file-name = CONFIG_plugin )/include/plugin-version.h ))
• defined in scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 4.19–4.20, 5.0–5.1, 5.5–5.19, 6.0–6.8, 6.9-rc+HEAD

Help text

GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.

See Documentation/kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst for details.

found in scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS:

• prompt:
• type: bool
• depends on: ( CONFIG_HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS ) && ( CONFIG_PLUGIN_HOSTCC != "")
• defined in scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 5.2–5.4

Help text

GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.

See Documentation/core-api/gcc-plugins.rst for details.

GCC plugins found in arch/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS:

• prompt: GCC plugins
• type: bool
• depends on: ( CONFIG_HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS ) && ( CONFIG_PLUGIN_HOSTCC != "")
• defined in arch/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 4.8–4.18

Help text

GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.

See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.

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