Re: New (now current development process)

Bill Davidsen
2005-11-01T15:26:12Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>Are you sure these kernels are feature-equivalent?
>>
>>They may not be feature-equivalent in reality, but it's hard to generate
>>something that has the features (or lack there-of) of old kernels these
>>days. Which is problematic.
>
>
> Probably.
>
>
>>But some of it is likely also compilers. gcc does insane padding in many
>>cases these days.
>
>
> 2.6.14 `make allnoconfig':
>
> gcc-2.95.4:
>
> bix:/usr/src/25> size vmlinux
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 665502 152379 55120 873001 d5229 vmlinux
>
> gcc version 4.1.0 20050513 (experimental):
>
> bix:/usr/src/25> size vmlinux
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 761415 151851 55280 968546 ec762 vmlinux

Was this with -Os or ???
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