Re: [PATCH] Make gcc -align options .config-settable

[Andrew Morton]

Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With all alignment options set to 1 (minimum alignment),
> I've got 5% smaller vmlinux compared to one built with
> default code alignment.
> 

Sam, can you process this one?

> 
>  
> +GCC_VERSION	= $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC))

It bugs me that we're evaluating the same thing down in arch/i386/Makefile.
 Perhaps we should evaluate GCC_VERSION once only, as some top-level kbuild
thing.  So everyone can assume that it's present and correct?
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