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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Akinobu Mita <mita@fixstars.com>,
	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] force -mno-string option on cell
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:46:48 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174679208.10836.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b7160f3020aae6e7926b79c14939750c@kernel.crashing.org>

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 17:35 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Nack.  If GCC is now putting string instructions even if you don't 
> > specify -mstring than we also need this for CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE.  Please 
> > fix that up as well.
> 
> In the absence of -mstring and -mno-string options,
> GCC will default to either on or off based on other
> options (CPU model, mostly).  This is good behaviour
> since it intends to give you the best code sequences
> for whatever CPU you selected (or for a blended CPU
> model etc).

strings instructions suck, get away with it.

Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-23 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-22  6:23 [PATCH] powerpc: Always use -mno-string Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-22 12:06 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-23 12:06   ` [PATCH] force -mno-string option on cell Akinobu Mita
2007-03-23 12:56     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-23 19:38       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-24  0:02         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-23 20:46       ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Arnd Bergmann
2007-03-26 12:00         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-24  3:02       ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-24 14:46         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-23 13:37     ` Kumar Gala
2007-03-23 16:35       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-23 19:46         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-03-24  0:04           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-03-26  8:54             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-03-26 12:33               ` Segher Boessenkool

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