Re: [RFC] klibc for 2.5.59 bk

From: Stelian Pop (stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 04:56:19 EST


On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:45:33AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> >Linus, please apply.
>
> um, please don't...

[...]
>
> ...because
> (a) the Crusoe cflags are no longer together,
> (b) Cyrix-3 cflags are suddenly bisected by Crusoe cflags, and
> (c) you just dumped a crusoe-specific line in the middle of a bunch of
> Via/Cyrix CPU settings.
>
> None of those choices makes sense. If you want to improve upon my
> patch, I would suggest consolidating the -f/-m check above the CPU
> cflags section, and then reference the calculated value, rather than
> wholly duplicating the calculation. The comment line "# The alignment
> flags [...]" is obviously not the start of a new alignment-flags section.

Agreed, I was overzealous here...

Consolidating the -f/-m check above seems a bit overkill, especially
since we don't want the same align options for all architectures.

Maybe removing the comment is the simplest improvement on your
patch then. Not a big improvement however :)

Stelian.

===== arch/i386/Makefile 1.44 vs edited =====
--- 1.44/arch/i386/Makefile Fri Feb 7 19:59:54 2003
+++ edited/arch/i386/Makefile Tue Feb 18 10:51:40 2003
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MK6) += $(call check_gcc,-march=k6,-march=i586)
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MK7) += $(call check_gcc,-march=athlon,-march=i686 -malign-functions=4)
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MK8) += $(call check_gcc,-march=k8,$(call check_gcc,-march=athlon,-march=i686 -malign-functions=4))
-cflags-$(CONFIG_MCRUSOE) += -march=i686 -malign-functions=0 -malign-jumps=0 -malign-loops=0
+cflags-$(CONFIG_MCRUSOE) += -march=i686
+cflags-$(CONFIG_MCRUSOE) += $(call check_gcc,-falign-functions=0 -falign-jumps=0 -falign-loops=0,-malign-functions=0 -malign-jumps=0 -malign-loops=0)
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6) += $(call check_gcc,-march=winchip-c6,-march=i586)
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MWINCHIP2) += $(call check_gcc,-march=winchip2,-march=i586)
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D) += -march=i586
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MCYRIXIII) += $(call check_gcc,-march=c3,-march=i486)
-# The alignment flags change with gcc 3.2
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MCYRIXIII) += $(call check_gcc,-falign-functions=0 -falign-jumps=0 -falign-loops=0,-malign-functions=0 -malign-jumps=0 -malign-loops=0)
 cflags-$(CONFIG_MVIAC3_2) += $(call check_gcc,-march=c3-2,-march=i686)
 

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Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>
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