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DateSat, 9 Feb 2002 20:55:24 -0800 (PST)
FromLinus Torvalds <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] BUG preserve registers

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> This looks a really bad reversion. The CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE ifdef saves
> over 70K of memory on my standard kernel build.

It saves 70k because the old code was total _crap_, and couldn't merge
strings within the same file etc.

With the new code I bet it's less than a kB with new gccs, and probably on
the order of a few kB with old ones.

		Linus

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