Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:28:38 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       pavel@suse.cz, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (wakeup)
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On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:21:27PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >
> >For a 64 bit build we should error out if the compiler
> >fials to support -m32 (how unlikely that may be).
> >So I would prefer it unconditional for 64 bit.
> >
> 
> We will err out anyway.

But I assume in less obvious way.
It is a bit more intuitive to error out on missing
-m32 support than gcc failing to support .code16
or some other inline assembler magic.

	Sam
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