From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750897AbWIAVQv (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:16:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750901AbWIAVQv (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:16:51 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:8395 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750897AbWIAVQu (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:16:50 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Compile kernel with -fwhole-program --combine From: David Woodhouse To: Ian Stirling Cc: Helge Hafting , Rob Landley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tiny@selenic.com, devel@laptop.org In-Reply-To: <44F88B98.3020805@mauve.plus.com> References: <1156429585.3012.58.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1156433068.3012.115.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <200608251611.50616.rob@landley.net> <1156538115.3038.6.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <44F2CB09.2010809@aitel.hist.no> <1156764076.5340.75.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <44F88B98.3020805@mauve.plus.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:15:28 -0700 Message-Id: <1157145328.2473.3.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 (2.6.3-1.fc5.5.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 20:35 +0100, Ian Stirling wrote: > I thought that it used rather a lot more RAM. I still often(ish) > compile a kernel on my PII/300/128M. It'd be moderately annoying if it > got slower, and there was no way to turn it off. There will definitely be a way to turn it off. Compilers with all the relevant bugs fixed are not common yet -- in fact I think I may have the _only_ existing builds with all the patches collected together. -- dwmw2 -- VGER BF report: H 0