From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: use .code16 instead of .code16gcc
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:34:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C73AD8.3080603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1388788242.2391.75.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
On 01/03/2014 02:30 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Since I just made .code16 work in LLVM, this removes one more barrier to
> building the kernel with LLVM/clang. And it looks like 'clang -m16' for
> the C code in arch/x86/boot shouldn't actually be that hard to do now
> either.
Nice. I would really like a gcc option "-m16" even if all it did was
emit .code16gcc first in any assembly file (a bunch of the options we
need for the 16-bit code is just so gcc doesn't emit code *before* the
.code16gcc directive.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-03 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-03 22:30 [PATCH] x86/boot: use .code16 instead of .code16gcc David Woodhouse
2014-01-03 22:34 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-01-03 23:12 ` David Woodhouse
2014-01-03 23:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-03 22:46 ` [tip:x86/build] x86, boot: Use " tip-bot for David Woodhouse
2014-01-04 22:04 ` tip-bot for David Woodhouse
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