linux-kernel - Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]

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Message-ID: <4D7E580A.6000807@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:01:46 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ian Lance Taylor <iant@...gle.com>
CC:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>, sedat.dilek@...il.com,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, amodra@...il.com,
	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	binutils <binutils@...rceware.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]

On 03/14/2011 08:56 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com> writes:
> 
>> No - $(AS) isn't being used to translate .S files, $(CC) is being used
>> instead. That's why I pointed at the necessary -B option (so that
>> the compiler would be able to locate the wrapper H.J. suggested).
> 
> You could also just put a -Wa option in your $(CC).  That seems simpler
> than a -B option.
> 
> (I don't really care about this issue one way or another.)
> 

-Wa is definitely the sane way to do it.  The -B thing came in if you
have to run a patched version of as, which is extremely painful.

	-hpa

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