GCC 3.1 produces a larger 2.5.15 Linux kernel than 3.0.4

[Alessandro Suardi <alessandro dot suardi at oracle dot com>]

Like this:

[root@dolphin boot]# ls -l vmlinuz*15 vmlinuz*304
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1070877 May 16 22:30 vmlinuz-2.5.15
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1058393 May 10 23:40 vmlinuz-2.5.15-gcc304


Haven't tried with other kernels... System.map seems to
  show a fairly large number of these:


[root@dolphin /]# grep __constant /boot/System.map | awk '{print $3}' | sort -u
__constant_c_and_count_memset
__constant_copy_from_user
__constant_copy_from_user_nocheck
__constant_copy_to_user
__constant_copy_to_user_nocheck
__constant_memcpy
[root@dolphin /]# grep __constant /boot/System.map | wc -l
     315


  which aren't present in the GCC 3.0.4 output.

For completeness of info, I built both compilers with the
  same options on a i686-pc-linux-gnu, such as:

  --enable-shared
  --with-gnu-as
  --with-gnu-ld
  --enable-threads
  --enable-languages=c,c++

If you wish me to provide more info, I'd be happy to do so,
  please CC: me in replies since I'm not on the list.

Thanks and keep up the good work,


--alessandro

  "the hands that build / can also pull down
    even the hands of love"
                             (U2, "Exit")