Re: New (now current development process)

[Bill Davidsen]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > Are you sure these kernels are feature-equivalent?
> >
> > They may not be feature-equivalent in reality, but it's hard to generate 
> > something that has the features (or lack there-of) of old kernels these 
> > days. Which is problematic.
>
>
> Probably.
>
>
> > But some of it is likely also compilers. gcc does insane padding in many 
> > cases these days. 
>
>
> 2.6.14 `make allnoconfig':
>
> gcc-2.95.4:
>
> 	bix:/usr/src/25> size vmlinux 
> 	   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 	 665502  152379   55120  873001   d5229 vmlinux
>
> gcc version 4.1.0 20050513 (experimental):
>
> 	bix:/usr/src/25> size vmlinux
> 	   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 	 761415  151851   55280  968546   ec762 vmlinux

Was this with -Os or ???
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   -bill davidsen (davidsen@xxxxxxx)
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 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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