linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] arm: Silence gcc warnings about arch ABI drift

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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:53:15 +0000
From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To: 'Kent Overstreet' <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>, "Russell King (Oracle)"
	<linux@...linux.org.uk>
CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Calvin Owens <jcalvinowens@...il.com>,
	"Dave Martin" <Dave.Martin@....com>, "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org"
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org"
	<linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] arm: Silence gcc warnings about arch ABI drift

..
> I'm not always trying to write code that will generate the fastest
> assembly possible; there aro other considerations. As long a the
> compiler is doing something /reasonable/, the code is fine.

Speaks the man who was writing horrid 'jit' code ...

This also begs the question of why that data is so compressed
in the first place?
It is quite likely that a few accesses generate far more code
than the data you are attempting to save.

	David

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