Re: Compiling x86 with and without frame pointer

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 09:46:22 EST


On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 12:55, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:47:13PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> > The conventional wisdom is that compiling x86 without frame pointer
> > results in smaller code. It turns out to be the opposite, compiling
> > with frame pointers results in a smaller kernel. gcc version 3.2
> > 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 3.2-4).
>
> I've been pushing a forward port of the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER changes
> that went into 2.4 for a while, but Linus hasn't taken them each time.
> I'll keep pushing until I get a comment..

Send it this way 8)

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Nov 23 2002 - 22:00:36 EST