On 11/27/07, Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
>
> > On 11/26/07, Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > The model(small) attribute is not supported by gcc 4.X. The tests
> > > will always be negative today.
> >
> > What was the rationale for removing this attribute?
>
> The code is then similar across all architectures and can be moved into
> generic code.
Uniformity for the sake of uniformity? The small data addressing is
really elegant and I don't think it should be dropped just for the
sake of uniformity.
--david
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