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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:55:54 +0000
From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Compiling x86 with and without frame pointer
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:47:13PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
 > The conventional wisdom is that compiling x86 without frame pointer
 > results in smaller code.  It turns out to be the opposite, compiling
 > with frame pointers results in a smaller kernel.  gcc version 3.2
 > 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 3.2-4).

I've been pushing a forward port of the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER changes
that went into 2.4 for a while, but Linus hasn't taken them each time.
I'll keep pushing until I get a comment..

		Dave

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