Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 09:30 +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> I cc'd Linus as I cannot believe he agreed with allowing such an 
> optimization to be a default and standard thing accepted by the Linux 
> kernel. (But I may be wrong, especially since Linus isn't particularly 
> fond of kdb anyway :)

I don't see a problem, have you ever seen ia64??
> Actually, having cc'd Linus made me think very _carefully_ about what I 
> say and I went and checked how the userspace does it, as I couldn't 
> believe that such fine piece of software as gdb would be broken as well. 
> And to my surprize I discovered that gdb (when a program is compiled with 
> -g) works fine! I.e. it shows the function arguments correctly. And 


so why don't you use kgdb instead of kdb ?


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