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From: "David Mosberger-Tang" <dmosberger@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:20:12 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch 04/14] ia64: Remove the __SMALL_ADDR_AREA attribute for per cpu access
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To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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On 11/26/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> The model(small) attribute is not supported by gcc 4.X. The tests
> will always be negative today.

What was the rationale for removing this attribute?

  --david