Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161043AbWASR7T (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:59:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161073AbWASR7S (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:59:18 -0500 Received: from rialto-h50.host.net ([64.135.31.50]:62087 "EHLO mail.ultrawaves.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161043AbWASR7S (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:59:18 -0500 Message-ID: <43CFD364.3010803@lammerts.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:59:00 -0500 From: Eric Lammerts User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] offer CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE only if EXPERIMENTAL References: <20051214191006.GC23349@stusta.de> <20051214140531.7614152d.akpm@osdl.org> <20051214221304.GE23349@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 816 Lines: 26 Linus Torvalds wrote: > +config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE > + bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)" > + default y > + depends on ARM || H8300 || EXPERIMENTAL > + depends on !SPARC64 > + help > + Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc > + resulting in a smaller kernel. > + > + WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this > + option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed. > + > + If unsure, say N. "default y" and "If unsure, say N" ? If not sure, don't go with the default? Eric - 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/