Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262507AbTIEOyy (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:54:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262497AbTIEOyy (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:54:54 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:57546 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262507AbTIEOyx (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:54:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 07:54:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen cc: akpm@osdl.org, , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use -fno-unit-at-a-time if gcc supports it In-Reply-To: <20030905004710.GA31000@averell> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 18 On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Unfortunately the kernel doesn't compile with unit-at-a-time currently, > it cannot tolerate the reordering of functions in relation to inline > assembly. What is the problem exactly? Is it the exception table getting unordered? We _could_ just sort it at boot-time (or, even better, at build time after the final link) instead... Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/