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Subject: Re: Compiling x86 with and without frame pointer
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 12:55, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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..

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