Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Feb 2002 20:55:24 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] BUG preserve registers |
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > This looks a really bad reversion. The CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE ifdef saves > over 70K of memory on my standard kernel build.
It saves 70k because the old code was total _crap_, and couldn't merge strings within the same file etc.
With the new code I bet it's less than a kB with new gccs, and probably on the order of a few kB with old ones.
Linus
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