linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7u1 22/31] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage and ramdisk above 4G

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Message-ID: <20130114232109.GB30943@liondog.tnic>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:21:09 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	Gokul Caushik <caushik1@...il.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7u1 22/31] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage
 and ramdisk above 4G

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:10:25PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Actually, on 32 bits the compiler will simply drop the statement on
> the floor, no #ifdef required. If gcc outputs a warning we should do
> something about it, otherwise we can just plain ignore it.

Good point, it does that both when I do -O2 and -Os -m32 builds with a
simple test program. Disregard my previous comment about this.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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