From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@quark.didntduck.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dead code in i386 math-emu
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 09:18:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DC53026.5080205@quark.didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1036327073.29646.4.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 03:40, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
>>This removes unused non-reentrant code in the fpu emulator.
>
>
> Why remove it - it might actually be useful some day and its doing no
> harm ?
>
Why keep it? All it does is put the variables (28 bytes at most) in
global space instead of on the stack. There is no need to have it both
ways.
--
Brian Gerst
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-03 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-03 3:40 Brian Gerst
2002-11-03 12:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-03 14:18 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
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