Re: [patch 04/14] ia64: Remove the __SMALL_ADDR_AREA attribute for

Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27T21:38:02Z

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Strange. Works fine here.
>
> $ arch/ia64/scripts/toolchain-flags gcc objdump readelf
> -DHAVE_WORKING_TEXT_ALIGN -DHAVE_MODEL_SMALL_ATTRIBUTE -DHAVE_SERIALIZE_DIRECTIVE
> $ gcc --version | head -n 1
> gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)
> $ grep ia64_handle_model_attribute config/ia64/*.c
> config/ia64/ia64.c:static tree ia64_handle_model_attribute (tree *, tree, tree, int, bool *);
> config/ia64/ia64.c: { "model", 1, 1, true, false, false, ia64_handle_model_attribute },
> config/ia64/ia64.c:ia64_handle_model_attribute (tree *node, tree name, tree args,
> $ grep small_addr_symbolic_operand config/ia64/*.md
> config/ia64/constraints.md: (match_operand 0 "small_addr_symbolic_operand"))
> config/ia64/predicates.md:(define_predicate "small_addr_symbolic_operand"

Hmmm...

http://www.ohse.de/uwe/articles/gcc-attributes.html

says:

model (MODEL-NAME)
Found in versions: 2.8-3.4

But true my compiler still takes it. Ok, I am going to add an option to
add attributes to percpu definitions.