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Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 20:23:15 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] BUG preserve registers
In-Reply-To: <3C659D8A.37EA0155@zip.com.au> from "Andrew Morton" at Feb 09, 2002 02:07:06 PM <E16Zjw9-0000Dr-00@the-village.bc.nu> <3C65F523.FDDB7FA@zip.com.au>
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Andrew Morton wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
> 
>>>This works for me, from in-kernel as well as in-module.  It'd
>>>be good if someone more familiar with x86 could check it over.
>>>
>>This looks a really bad reversion. The CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE ifdef saves
>>over 70K of memory on my standard kernel build.
>>
> 
> About the time the 70k claim was made, I moved the printk out-of-line,
> so things got not so bad.  However, with my (large) kernel build, on
> egcs-1.1.2:
> 
> non-verbose BUG:
>         2589971  293436  373404 3256811  31b1eb vmlinux
> verbose BUG:
>         2709055  293436  373404 3375895  338317 vmlinux
> Patched:
>         2694537  293436  373404 3361377  334a61 vmlinux
> 
> Which is 100k, which is preposterous.
> 


Use "size" to determine the actual size, or strip the binary.

	-hpa


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