From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: fyi: gcc33-hammer crashes when compiling kvm emulate.c
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:37:27 -0700
Message-ID: <4CC73C07.3030704@zytor.com>
References: <20101026123828.GA30434@basil.fritz.box> <4CC70333.80400@zytor.com> <20101026163748.GB29961@basil.fritz.box> <4CC705ED.1020105@zytor.com> <20101026170142.GD29961@basil.fritz.box> <4CC71B94.2010802@zytor.com> <20101026202734.GB2603@basil.fritz.box>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Return-path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101026202734.GB2603@basil.fritz.box>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org

On 10/26/2010 01:27 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> That is an issue too, as 3.x does a lot fewer optimizations than 4.x.
> 
> Well to be fair the default -Os build disables most of the fancy stuff
> (and the resulting code is often terrible) 
> 
> I guess it doesn't matter too much, at least not with the 
> CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_SIZE default.
> 

Yes, it would be nice to have a setting which is "optimize but don't
bloat excessively."

	-hpa