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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: -freg-struct-return?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:04:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172131463.3531.226.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45DCF1C5.4030006@goop.org>
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:28 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> We have a number of functions which return small structures (such as
> pte_t). It seems that the kernel is not compiled with
> -freg-struct-return, so all these small structures are being returned
> via the stack, even though they would fit into registers.
>
> Is there a reason for this? Would -freg-struct-return be preferred? It
> would make a good compliment to -mregparm.
Do we know how many gcc bugs this has? (regparm used to have many)
other than that.. sounds like a win...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-22 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-22 1:28 -freg-struct-return? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-22 8:04 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-02-22 8:09 ` -freg-struct-return? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-22 8:15 ` -freg-struct-return? Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-22 8:30 ` -freg-struct-return? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-22 8:37 ` -freg-struct-return? Ingo Molnar
2007-02-22 8:38 ` [patch] x86: add -freg-struct-return to CFLAGS Ingo Molnar
2007-02-22 11:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-22 11:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-22 18:35 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-02-22 22:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-22 9:50 ` -freg-struct-return? Jakub Jelinek
2007-02-22 11:22 ` -freg-struct-return? Andi Kleen
2007-02-22 16:42 ` -freg-struct-return? H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-22 17:39 ` -freg-struct-return? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-22 18:36 ` -freg-struct-return? Andi Kleen
2007-02-22 18:48 ` -freg-struct-return? H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-23 0:21 ` -freg-struct-return? Andi Kleen
2007-02-22 18:56 ` -freg-struct-return? Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-22 19:12 ` -freg-struct-return? H. Peter Anvin
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