Re: [RFC] Observations on x86 process.c

[Jan Engelhardt]

>A) dump_thread() and dump_task_regs() are in the middle of the file, but
>will be infrequently used. With default 16 byte alignment, this may cause
>bits of them to wind up polluting the L1 on anything with L1 lines > 16
>bytes.  L2 lines could be similarly polluted too of course.

C compilers are free to reorder functions (are they?), especially GCC when it 
is passed -funit-at-a-time (which currently is not in CFLAGS).



Jan Engelhardt                                                               
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