Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: inlining failures in sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Aug 22 2007 - 17:46:24 EST


On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:07:33PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:23:03 +0200,
> Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is from x86_32 with gcc 3.4.6:
> >
> > CC [M] sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.o
> > sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c: In function `snd_hda_codec_free':
> > sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:517: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'free_hda_cache': function body not available
> > sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:534: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
> > sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:517: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'free_hda_cache': function body not available
> > sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:535: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
> > make[3]: *** [sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: *** [sound/pci/hda] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** [sound/pci] Error 2
> > make: *** [sound] Error 2
>
> Since it doesn't happen with gcc-4.x, this looks like a gcc-3.x
> specific problem.
>...

It happens because gcc doesn't see the whole file without
unit-at-a-time and we disable unit-at-a-time with gcc 3.4 on i386 due
to stack usage problems (and older GNU gcc versions don't support
unit-at-a-time at all).

cu
Adrian

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