kbuild: fix modpost compile with older gcc

The kernel now requires that CC be 3.1.0 or higher.  But we shouldn't place
that requirement upon HOSTCC unless we really need to.  Fixes my ia64 problem.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 844f84b..5b076ef 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -590,14 +590,14 @@ static void check_sec_ref(struct module *mod, const char *modname,
                
        /* Walk through all sections */
        for (i = 0; i < hdr->e_shnum; i++) {
+               Elf_Rela *rela;
+               Elf_Rela *start = (void *)hdr + sechdrs[i].sh_offset;
+               Elf_Rela *stop  = (void*)start + sechdrs[i].sh_size;
                const char *name = secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name +
                                                strlen(".rela");
                /* We want to process only relocation sections and not .init */
                if (section_ref_ok(name) || (sechdrs[i].sh_type != SHT_RELA))
                        continue;
-               Elf_Rela *rela;
-               Elf_Rela *start = (void *)hdr + sechdrs[i].sh_offset;
-               Elf_Rela *stop  = (void*)start + sechdrs[i].sh_size;
 
                for (rela = start; rela < stop; rela++) {
                        Elf_Rela r;