Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:18:36 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 04/14] ia64: Remove the __SMALL_ADDR_AREA attribute for per cpu access |
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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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