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    DateSat, 12 Jul 2003 11:34:20 +0100
    FromDave Jones <>
    SubjectRe: 2.5 'what to expect'
    On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:51:53PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
    
     > There is no problem with the current version of this patch.  I rewrote 
     > the original patch to work around the bug in gcc.  The bug is that:
     > 
     > 	if (size < X) return kmem_cache_alloc(...);
     > 
     > would not cause the remaining if statements to be marked as dead code, but:
     > 
     > 	if (size < X) goto found;
     > 	...
     > 	found: return kmem_cache_alloc(...);
     > 
     > does optimize properly.
    
    Ok, I'll drop that part from the next version of the doc.
    It's not a critical thing that most users will notice.
    
    		Dave
    
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