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Message-ID: <20060821214636.GP11651@stusta.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:46:36 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] re-add -ffreestanding
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:24:44PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:21:54 +0200
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote:
>
> > I got the following compile error with gcc 4.1.1 when trying to compile
> > kernel 2.6.18-rc4-mm2 for m68k:
>
> I object to this change. -ffreestanding shouldn't be forced on everybody
Why?
The Linux kernel is a freestanding environment.
Omitting -ffreestanding only for allowing gcc to automatically use
builtins isn't a good idea (as we have already seen).
We can easily enable as many gcc builtins as we want.
We could even do this for all platforms in include/linux/string.h
It might make sense to do this properly since it could e.g. be the gcc
builtins produce no worse code than the inlines in
include/asm-i386/string.h.
But if this should be done, let's do it right and explicitely.
> -Andi
cu
Adrian
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