Re: [PATCH] BUG preserve registers

Linus Torvalds
2002-02-10T03:10:26Z

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> This looks a really bad reversion. The CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE ifdef saves
> over 70K of memory on my standard kernel build.

It saves 70k because the old code was total _crap_, and couldn't merge
strings within the same file etc.

With the new code I bet it's less than a kB with new gccs, and probably on
the order of a few kB with old ones.

Linus