Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:30:12 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Put the BUG __FILE__ and __LINE__ info out of line |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > But no out of line section. So overall it's smaller, although the cache footprint > is 2 bytes larger. But then is 2 bytes larger really an issue? We don't have > _that_ many BUGs anyways. >
I think the out of line section is a feature; no point in crufting up the icache with BUG gunk, especially since a number of them are on fairly hot paths.
> I'll port the x86-64 way over to i386
It's neat, and it would solve my immediate problem, but I think my way is actually better.
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