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Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 07:37 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >> On Saturday 21 July 2007 00:32, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>> As an initial matter, we made it painstakingly sure that the resulting >>> .o files in a 32-bit build are bit for bit equal. >> You got not a single line less code duplication then, so i don't really >> see the point of this. > > Really ? > > The script detected 15 identical files with a simple cmp. > > It also unified another 10 by simply looking at the only line in there > "include <the other arch/file>" > > And there is more of that, when you take the time and look closely at > the _32.[ch] _64.[ch] files which are created by the merge. Looking at the include files, many more are near-identical in trivial ways, such as whitespace, comments, local variable names, or guard #ifdefs. -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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