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SubjectRe: [patch 04/14] ia64: Remove the __SMALL_ADDR_AREA attribute for per cpu access
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:

> 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.

Uniformity for the sake of code size reduction and easier maintenance.

Yes I think it would be great to have this feature on all arches if
possible. If someone could work with the gcc /linker folks to get this
done that would be great.

But the feature has been removed from gcc and so its not usable for IA64
with a current compiler anymore. This is basically removing useless code.


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