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SubjectRe: source dependencies cleanup?
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> Out of interest why doesn't the kernel use -MD to generate dependancies
> on the fly.
>
> If the answer is that we don't want to be tied to gcc then I would suggest
> that it's already too late for that.

I _think_ the answer is, GCC is simply too slow. The 'mkdep.c' utility
doesn't have all the baggage of GCC, and is very fast.

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Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net
Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/
XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html

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