Re: coding for optimizations (Re: [PATCH 1/2] i386: mce cleanup part1: functional change)

Oleg Verych
2007-10-11T15:12:04Z

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 01:14:29AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
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> It's also a quite ill idea to think about whether gcc might produce a
> few bytes more or less code at the if when there's such a long printk()
> in the middle...

printk() problem was discussed with proper banana userspace replacement
proposition by me, so i don't care much.

Though, why MCE can't be enabled/disabled by config option? Native
engineers from proper company should know what processors have this
feature... If kconfig isn't flexible for this, i'm glad to hear
opinions. If it's needed anyway, then sorry.
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