[PATCH] scripts: headers_install.sh: Normalize __ASSEMBLY__ to __ASSEMBLER__

Thomas Huth <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:10:25 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-kbuild,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>

A previous patch to headers_install.sh normalized the usage of
__ASSEMBLER__ to __ASSEMBLY__ in the UAPI headers due to the
assumption that older versions of GCC might not define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically and thus using __ASSEMBLER__ in the UAPI headers might
break compilation with very old versions of GCC. However, as we now
reassured, even GCC 2.95 still defines __ASSEMBLER__ automatically
(and even older versions are hopefully not in use with the current
Linux UAPI headers anymore).
__ASSEMBLER__ is also set automatically by other C compilers like PCC
(see https://github.com/IanHarvey/pcc/blob/cvs2git/2018.09.20/cc/cc/cc.1#L405)
and Tiny-C (see https://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git/commitdiff/a25325e9be13e52a),
so using __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI header files should really be fine.

Thus let's head forwards and standardize on __ASSEMBLER__ instead
of __ASSEMBLY__ in the UAPI header files now.

Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
---
 Based-on: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

 To avoid the churn, feel free to squash this patch with
 Thomas Weißschuh's original patch as long as it has not been
 merged to Linus' tree yet.

 scripts/headers_install.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/headers_install.sh b/scripts/headers_install.sh
index 83e4475968781..2f1d1767ca267 100755
--- a/scripts/headers_install.sh
+++ b/scripts/headers_install.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ sed -E -e '
 	s/(^|[^a-zA-Z0-9])__packed([^a-zA-Z0-9_]|$)/\1__attribute__((packed))\2/g
 	s/(^|[[:space:](])(inline|asm|volatile)([[:space:](]|$)/\1__\2__\3/g
 	s@#(ifndef|define|endif[[:space:]]*/[*])[[:space:]]*_UAPI@#\1 @
-	s/__ASSEMBLER__/__ASSEMBLY__/g
+	s/__ASSEMBLY__/__ASSEMBLER__/g
 ' $INFILE > $TMPFILE || exit 1
 
 scripts/unifdef -U__KERNEL__ -D__EXPORTED_HEADERS__ $TMPFILE > $OUTFILE
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