Re: [uClinux-dev] Kernel 2.6 size increase - get_current()?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 17:37:22 EST

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On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 23:35, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> It's a sequence of 6 instructions, 18 bytes long, clobbering 4 registers.
> The compiler cannot see around it.
> This takes 18*11 = 198 bytes just for invoking the 'current'
> macro so many times.

Unless you support SMP I'm not sure I understand why m68k nommu changed
from using a global for current_task ?

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