From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why sim/boot in -test4?
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:56:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106184533520478@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106164660606242@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:40:55 +0100, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> said:
Matthew> By the way, -test3 used to take a really really long time
Matthew> to link each step, and -test4 doesn't. I don't know
Matthew> whether this was an intentional fix, but I'm certainly
Matthew> happy to see it.
I don't think it's a fix per se, but rather a new config option: it
used to be that I turned on compilation with "-g" unconditionally
(sorry, but I hate not having debug info around when you need it...).
Now Sam (finally! ;-) added a CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL option, so if you
didn't turn this on, the kernel will be compiled without debug option
and the resulting object files will be a lot smaller.
BTW: someone really ought to look into why the debug info is so big
and what could be done to handle it more sanely. For example, we get
tons of debug-info replication due to header-files etc. It's rather
embarrassing how low the state of the art is w.r.t. debug info
management...
--david
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-23 13:49 Why sim/boot in -test4? Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-23 17:32 ` David Mosberger
2003-08-23 17:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-25 20:56 ` David Mosberger [this message]
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