From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:09:30 -0700 Message-ID: <48123A7A.6090402@zytor.com> References: <20080425152650.GA894@elte.hu> <20080425154854.GC3265@one.firstfloor.org> <20080425161916.GD3265@one.firstfloor.org> <20080425163035.GE9503@Krystal> <481209F2.4050908@zytor.com> <20080425170929.GA16180@Krystal> <20080425183748.GB16180@Krystal> <48122ECF.405@zytor.com> <20080425200423.GA25950@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Jiri Slaby , David Miller , zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com, rjw@sisk.pl, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, clameter@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pageexec@freemail.hu, Jeremy Fitzhardinge To: Mathieu Desnoyers Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41537 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759181AbYDYUeK (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:34:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080425200423.GA25950@Krystal> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > >> There are only two ways to deal with this - extensive analysis of the >> entire flow of control, or telling the compiler exactly what is *actually* >> going on. The latter is the preferred way, obviously. >> > > Yes, in an ideal world, gcc would help here. > gcc is a free software project, and the gcc maintainers are around and can be approached. A good proposal will go a long way, and patches will go even longer. -hpa