Subject: Re: Proposal: eliminate all macros in the kernel
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Tonnerre LOMBARD <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/22/2005 09:46:51
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Salut,

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:44:30AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> Yes, but only within a compilation unit.  There are compilers that do
> better as part of interprocerdural optimization during the link stage
> for an executable but our current GCC is not one.

Never claimed it's perfect.

However, the criterium of decision is there, at least on a per-file
basis. It would of course work perfectly well if we just cat all files
into one and... forget it.

				Tonnerre

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