Graham Stoney wrote:
>
> Yo gang,
>
> Well we seemed to have a fascinating discussion that largely re-covered stuff
> I'd already mentioned in my first message about this. So does anyone know how
> we would go about convincing gcc to perform the optimisation of redundant zero
> initialisers in Linux kernel code?
>
> Thanks,
> Graham
>From the last time this got batted arround on egcs/gcc:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-01/msg00633.html
There seemed to be some idea in that thread that
-fconserve-space and -Os might want to affect whether
this optimisation was performed. -fno-common
seems to do the opposite of what you need.
Turn it on, & see if anything breaks.
Looks like the hard part will be getting folks to agree on
a name for the flag to disable it...
John.
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