Hi. Thanks for your answer. There goes my plan to better understand an UML kernel lock up by using a debugger... Everything gets optimised out with -O2 :-( Can you give an example function that relies on this GCC feature? With kind regards Thomas Am 19.08.2014 22:06 schrieb Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu: > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:12:10 +0200, Thomas Meyer said: > > > Hi, > > > > > > the build with -O0 fails with: > > > > bug or feature? > > > > > > any ideas? > > Feature.  The kernel is *known* to not build with -O0, because that > disables *all* function inlining, and there's several functions that *have* > to be inlined in order to function properly (most notably, anything > that uses the gcc __builtin_return_address in a function that is expected > to be inlined). ÿôèº{.nÇ+‰·Ÿ®‰­†+%ŠËÿ±éݶ¥Šwÿº{.nÇ+‰·¥Š{±þG«�éÿŠ{ayºʇڙë,j­¢f£¢·hš�ï�êÿ‘êçz_è®(­éšŽŠÝ¢j"�ú¶m§ÿÿ¾«þG«�éÿ¢¸?™¨è­Ú&£ø§~�á¶iO•æ¬z·švØ^¶m§ÿÿà ÿ¶ìÿ¢¸?–I¥