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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fixing sendfile on 64bit architectures
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:00:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16557.10848.19940.20498@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040520145658.3a7bf7df.akpm@osdl.org>
>>>>> On Thu, 20 May 2004 14:56:58 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> said:
>> I think the current patch is an improvement, so unless someone
>> comes up with something better, I'd like to see it applied.
Andrew> I do agree that ARCH_WANT_FOO is easier to understand and
Andrew> more idiomatic.
That is true. Actually, now that I have ARCH_OMIT, it's pretty easy
to write a script to do the complement, so the risk of introducing
errors is quite small. Let me see what this looks like.
Andrew> An alternative might be to remove all the ifdefs, build with
Andrew> -ffunction-sections and let the linker drop any unreferenced
Andrew> code...
Yeah, that might be an option. -ffunction-sections does bad things to
link-time, though, and I'm not sure I like the idea of having a
bazillion of tiny little sections.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-20 22:00 UTC|newest]
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2004-05-20 19:26 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-20 19:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-20 20:17 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-20 21:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-20 22:00 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2004-05-20 22:09 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-20 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-20 23:44 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-21 0:17 ` Spam: " Andrew Morton
2004-05-21 0:25 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-20 22:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-20 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-20 22:32 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-20 22:33 ` Jesse Barnes
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