From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: jh@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix compilation on gcc 3.4
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:49:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040114004944.5ba6b4a5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040114083700.GA1820@averell>
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
>
>
> The upcomming gcc 3.4 has a new inlining algorithm which sometimes
> fails to inline some "dumb" inlines in the kernel. This sometimes leads
> to undefined symbols while linking.
That's a compiler bug, surely.
> To make the kernel compile again this patch drops the always inline
> for gcc 3.4. The new algorithm should be good enough to do the right
> thing on its own.
Are you sure? Without the always_inline stuff we were seeing 100 different
copies of __constant_c_and_count_memset and friends in the vmlinux symbol
table. It was really silly.
After applying this patch and building with gcc-3.4, how does `size
vmlinux' compare with the same kernel built with gcc-3.3, minus the patch?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-14 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-14 8:37 [PATCH] Fix compilation on gcc 3.4 Andi Kleen
2004-01-14 8:47 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-01-14 8:58 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-14 10:53 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-01-14 8:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-14 9:04 ` Andi Kleen
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