Getting rid of -fno-unit-at-a-time [Was Re: RFC: Preserving order of functions and top-level asms via cgraph]

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:34:29PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:02:06AM -0700, Daniel Kegel wrote:
> >> BTW, I hope -fno-unit-at-a-time doesn't go away until at least gcc-4.1.1
> >> or so... I still lean on that crutch.
> >
> > A user!  Can you explain why?
> 
> The x86-64 2.4 linux kernel uses it too, because some code relies on 
> the ordering between asm and several functions.
> Other Linux ports might be similarly affected. 2.6 is fixed, but the
> fix is a bit too big to merge into a stable-nearly-dead tree like 2.4.

Thanks.  I was under the impression that 2.4 doesn't build with GCC
HEAD, anyway - I saw some patches pile up and not get applied.

Does 2.6 still use the option?

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