Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:56:40 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options |
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:36:54PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I don't see any use case for the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options: > - they are only available if EMBEDDED > - people using EMBEDDED will most likely also enable > CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE > - the default for -Os is to disable alignment > > In case someone is doing performance comparisons and discovers that the > default settings gcc chooses aren't good, the only sane thing is to > discuss whether it makes sense to change this, not through offering > options to change this locally.
I leave it to other to judge if this is wortwhile or not - I have no numbers to back up either with or without. It is though a nice cleaning effort in the Makefile.
But if we back-out this then cc-option-aling should go as well, including description in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
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