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Message-ID: <20071228221324.GA9105@does.not.exist>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:13:24 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: unify x86 Makefile(s)
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:23:41PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>...
> Noteworthy remarks on the unification:
>...
> - -funit-at-a-time should be easy to unify but it looks like we have a bug
> in 32 bit. We only enable -funit-at-a-time for gcc less than 0400 if they
> support it
No, we _dis_able it on 32bit if a gcc < 4.0 supports it.
> (and I recall it is a gcc 4.00 feature). [-lt -> -gt]
>...
unit-at-a-time was introduced in upstream gcc 3.4 and backported to some
popular 3.3 x86_64 branch.
i386 and x86_64 go in exactly opposite directions regarding when to use
unit-at-a-time, but that was intentional and we should keep it that way.
> Sam
>...
cu
Adrian
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