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Message-Id: <1187557523.19299.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:05:23 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>,
	Alan Modra <alan@...uxcare.com.au>,
	David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@....hp.com>
Subject: Re: sched.c: why -fno-omit-frame-pointer?


On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 16:17 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> kernel/sched.c gets compiled with -fno-omit-frame-pointer, and this was 
> already done in kernel 1.0 (sic).
> 
> Later, it has been modified to be this way only on some architectures.
> 
> It might not be an earthshaking amount, but removing it saves some 
> bytes, and there's no visible breakage when running the modified kernel 
> on i386.
> 

vague memory: this was needed for wchan to work properly


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