Re: Use -ffreestanding?

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Nov 09 2004 - 00:04:21 EST


> Why doesn't the kernel use -ffreestanding which should prevent all such
> problems?

Because we want most of these optimizations. Also with -ffreestanding
you would need to supply the out of line string functions anyways
because gcc wouldn't inline them.

-Andi
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