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PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 10:41:00 GMT 2011 
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:55:34AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The thing is, it is absolutely, breath-takingy incompetent for

kernel developers to write such poor asm!  And not notice the error
for 4 years!  Oh, and the binutils developers to write such a poor
assembler in the first place.  ;-)

Seriously, you are complaining because something is fixed??

> The correct solution is to turn it into a warning as me and others have suggested.

I disagree.  The whole world is not the linux kernel.  I think HJ is
bending over backwards to even offer a switch that turns the error
into a warning.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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