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[PATCH] x86: add -freg-struct-return to CFLAGS 

Jeremy Fitzhardinge suggested the use of -freg-struct-return, which does
structure-returns (such as when using pte_t) in registers instead of on
the stack.

that is indeed so, and this option reduced the kernel size a bit:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 4799506  543456 3760128 9103090  8ae6f2 vmlinux.before
 4798117  543456 3760128 9101701  8ae185 vmlinux.after

the resulting kernel booted fine on my testbox. Lets go for it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar 2007-02-22 09:38:22 +01:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 38bed54299
commit 25165120f2
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@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --emit-relocs
endif
CHECKFLAGS += -D__i386__
CFLAGS += -pipe -msoft-float -mregparm=3
CFLAGS += -pipe -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return
# prevent gcc from keeping the stack 16 byte aligned
CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2)