Re: [PATCH 46/74] x86, lto: Disable fancy hweight optimizations for LTO

[Andi Kleen]

> >  config ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS
> >  	string
> > -	default "-fcall-saved-ecx -fcall-saved-edx" if X86_32
> > -	default "-fcall-saved-rdi -fcall-saved-rsi -fcall-saved-rdx -fcall-saved-rcx -fcall-saved-r8 -fcall-saved-r9 -fcall-saved-r10 -fcall-saved-r11" if X86_64
> > +	default "-fcall-saved-ecx -fcall-saved-edx" if X86_32 && !LTO
> > +	default "-fcall-saved-rdi -fcall-saved-rsi -fcall-saved-rdx -fcall-saved-rcx -fcall-saved-r8 -fcall-saved-r9 -fcall-saved-r10 -fcall-saved-r11" if X86_64 && !LTO
> > +	default "" if LTO
> >  
> 
> Seems heavy handed.  How about using __attribute__((optimize(...))) instead?

Doesn't work for this. In fact according to the gcc developers that
attribute is mostly broken.

-Andi

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