Re: -mregparm=3 (was Re: [PATCH] i386 do_machine_check() isredundant.

From: Robert Love
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 23:56:03 EST


On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 00:49, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> I discovered that -test6-mm1 doesn't build with -ffreestanding with gcc 3.3.1,
> for an odd reason: when I specify -ffreestanding, it generates 'call abs' calls
> where it was able to do it inline otherwise. -ffreestanding says there's no library,
> so it can't inline the library call (which leaves no external call to 'abs()').

Hm, we may need to do something like:

#define abs(n) __builtin_abs((n))

because -ffreestanding implies -fno-builtin, which disables use of
built-in functions that do not begin with __builtin.

Robert Love


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