* Jakub Jelinek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > +CFLAGS += $(shell if [ $(GCC_VERSION) -lt 0400 ] ; then echo "-fno-unit-at-a-time"; fi ;)
>
> -fno-unit-at-a-time option has been introduced in GCC 3.4 (and 3.3-hammer
> branch). So unless the minimum supported GCC version to compile kernel is
> 3.4+, you need to replace
> echo "-fno-unit-at-a-time"
> with
> $(call cc-option,-fno-unit-at-a-time)
> .
indeed - updated patch below.
Ingo
Subject: allow gcc4 to optimize unit-at-a-time
allow gcc4 compilers to optimize unit-at-a-time - which results in gcc
having a wider scope when optimizing. This also results in smaller code
when optimizing for size. (gcc4 does not have the stack footprint
problem of gcc3 compilers.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
----
arch/i386/Makefile | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Index: linux/arch/i386/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/Makefile
+++ linux/arch/i386/Makefile
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ include $(srctree)/arch/i386/Makefile.cp
GCC_VERSION := $(call cc-version)
cflags-$(CONFIG_REGPARM) += $(shell if [ $(GCC_VERSION) -ge 0300 ] ; then echo "-mregparm=3"; fi ;)
-# Disable unit-at-a-time mode, it makes gcc use a lot more stack
-# due to the lack of sharing of stacklots.
-CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-unit-at-a-time)
+# Disable unit-at-a-time mode on pre-gcc-4.0 compilers, it makes gcc use
+# a lot more stack due to the lack of sharing of stacklots:
+CFLAGS += $(shell if [ $(GCC_VERSION) -lt 0400 ] ; then $(call cc-option,-fno-unit-at-a-time); fi ;)
CFLAGS += $(cflags-y)
-
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