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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: unify x86 Makefile(s)
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:13:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071228221324.GA9105@does.not.exist> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071228212341.GA6939@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:23:41PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>...
> Noteworthy remarks on the unification:
>...
> - -funit-at-a-time should be easy to unify but it looks like we have a bug
>   in 32 bit. We only enable -funit-at-a-time for gcc less than 0400 if they
>   support it

No, we _dis_able it on 32bit if a gcc < 4.0 supports it.

> (and I recall it is a gcc 4.00 feature). [-lt -> -gt]
>...

unit-at-a-time was introduced in upstream gcc 3.4 and backported to some 
popular 3.3 x86_64 branch.

i386 and x86_64 go in exactly opposite directions regarding when to use 
unit-at-a-time, but that was intentional and we should keep it that way.

> 	Sam
>...


cu
Adrian

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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-28 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-28 21:23 [PATCH] x86: unify x86 Makefile(s) Sam Ravnborg
2007-12-28 22:13 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-12-29  2:14   ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-29  8:07     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-29  9:39   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-12-29  9:52     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-29 12:16       ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-29 12:54         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-29 18:22           ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-12-29 18:24             ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-29 18:58               ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-12-29 21:17                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-29 21:45                   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-30  2:00                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-30 11:01                       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-29  2:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-29  8:07   ` Sam Ravnborg

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