Re: [RFC] gcc feature request: Moving blocks into sections

Linus Torvalds
2013-08-05T18:49:58Z

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> I had patches that did exactly this:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/461
>
> But it got dropped for some reason. I don't remember why. Maybe because
> of the complexity?

Ugh. Why the crazy update_jump_label script stuff? I'd go "Eww" at
that too, it looks crazy. The assembler already knows to make short
2-byte "jmp" instructions for near jumps, and you can just look at the
opcode itself to determine size, why is all that other stuff required?

IOW, 5/7 looks sane, but 4/7 makes me go "there's something wrong with
that series".

Linus