Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.5] Double quote patches part one: drivers 1/2 | Date | Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:16:56 +0100 |
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rmk@arm.linux.org.uk said: > and then read kernel/fork.s ? Yes, some people who care about getting > the best out of the kernel do convert C to assembly and then read the > result. If there's something really yucky in there, then you go back > and fix it in the C source.
s/C/compiler/
Or were you _really_ advocating the kind of development methodology which gave us all those gotos to out-of-line code which gcc helpfully moved back in-line for us when it got a little smarter because someone else observed the same problem and fixed it _properly_?
Tweaking your code and sacrificing chickens until you happen to get the output you want is no substitute for fixing the compiler. And it's a waste of good chickens.
-- dwmw2
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