Re: PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>> So what do you suggest that testers who want to, say, build old Linux
> >>> kernel versions with new binutils do?
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> The same that testers have to do in order to build old Linux kernel
> >> versions with current versions of make.
> >
> > Are you saying it's OK to screw over binutils users because GNU Make
> > did that too?
> 
> I'm just telling you the facts.

And you are wrong - latest Make does not break reasonably old kernel builds such as 
v2.6.30.

Latest binutils insta-breaks the build over 130,000 commits, including the latest 
released kernel.

Please change that .size build error to a build warning, to avoid this unnecessary 
collateral damage.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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