Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:10:21 -0700 | From | "David Mosberger-Tang" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 04/14] ia64: Remove the __SMALL_ADDR_AREA attribute for per cpu access |
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On 11/27/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, David Mosberger-Tang wrote: > > > On 11/26/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote: > > > The model(small) attribute is not supported by gcc 4.X. The tests > > > will always be negative today. > > > > What was the rationale for removing this attribute? > > The code is then similar across all architectures and can be moved into > generic code.
Uniformity for the sake of uniformity? The small data addressing is really elegant and I don't think it should be dropped just for the sake of uniformity.
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