Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Feb 2002 12:15:36 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] BUG preserve registers |
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On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > gcc generally get it wrong - unreferenced strings still appear > in the object code from multiple usage patterns. I think this > was fixed about six months ago.
Ok. If it's already fixed in recent gcc's, and since even a unfixed gcc should at most cause just one extra string per file, this sounds acceptable.
> But yes, the verbose BUG overhead is now six bytes per BUG, plus > a few bytes per file for the filename. And it's my opinion that > the non-verbose BUG option is undesirable - it's making the > developers' job harder. Seems that with this change, the reasons > for CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE are no longer with us, and it can > disappear.
Yes. Make it so.
Linus
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