Re: [PATCH] Use -fno-unit-at-a-time if gcc supports it

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately the kernel doesn't compile with unit-at-a-time currently,
> it cannot tolerate the reordering of functions in relation to inline
> assembly.

What is the problem exactly? Is it the exception table getting unordered?  
We _could_ just sort it at boot-time (or, even better, at build time after
the final link) instead...

		Linus

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