kbuild: Only add -fno-var-tracking-assignments for old GCC versions
Some old GCC versions between 4.5.0 and 4.9.1 might miscompile code with -fvar-tracking-assingments (which is enabled by default with -g -O2). Commit 2062afb4 ("Fix gcc-4.9.0 miscompilation of load_balance() in scheduler") added -fno-var-tracking-assignments unconditionally to work around this. But newer versions of GCC no longer have this bug, so only add it for versions of GCC before 5.0. This allows various tools such as a perf probe or gdb debuggers or systemtap to resolve variable locations using dwarf locations in more code. Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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