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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC 1/2] Makefile: Never use -fno-omit-frame-pointer
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:16:30AM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> According to Segher Boessenkool and GCC manual, -fomit-frame-pointer
> is only the default when optimising on archs/ABIs where it doesn't
> hinder debugging and -pg. So, we do not get it by default on x86,
> not at any optimisation level.
>
> On the other hand, *using* -fno-omit-frame-pointer causes gcc to
> produce buggy code on PowerPC targets.
>
> If Segher and GCC manual are right, this patch should be a no-op
> for all arches except PowerPC, where the patch fixes gcc issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
> ---
>
> See this thread for more discussion:
> http://osdir.com/ml/linux-kernel/2009-05/msg01754.html
>
> p.s.
> Obviously, I didn't test this patch on anything else but PPC32. ;-)
>
> Segher, do you know if all GCC versions that we support for
> building Linux are behaving the way that GCC manual describe?

No news is good news... Ingo, can we merge this into -tip for testing?

Thanks,

> Makefile | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index ea63667..70ad1ff 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
> endif
>
> ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
> -KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
> else
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fomit-frame-pointer
> endif
> --
> 1.6.3.1
>
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Anton Vorontsov
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