Re: New (now current development process)

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

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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