On Friday 24 June 2005 23:09, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch should _not_ go into Linus' tree.
>
> At some time in the future, we want to unconditionally enable REGPARM on
> i386.
>
> Let's give it a bit broader testing coverage among -mm users.
>
> This patch:
> - removes the dependency of REGPARM on EXPERIMENTAL
> - let REGPARM default to y
>
> This patch assumes that people who use -mm are willing to test some more
> experimental features.
>
> After this patch, REGPARM is still a config option users can disable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Jens Axboe had hit an obscure bug with regparm just yesterday.
It happened for him with gcc 3.3.5.
I have a preprocessed .c file which allows to reporduce this.
For me, gcc 3.3.6 is okay. need to build 3.3.5 and test.
Meanwhile, maybe we shall prohibit regparm if gcc <=3.3.6 or 3.4?
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