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From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
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Scott Long writes:

>No it doesn't.  See the gymnastics that Bill Paul had to do recently in
>the iee80211 code to get around the insane inlining that gcc does with
>-O2.  I'm not saying that gcc produces incorrect code, but I am saying
>that there is very strong evidence that it produces code that is
>incompatible with the restrictions inherent to the kernel, mainly that
>stack space is not infinite.

I wonder how this is being done elsewhere, on NetBSD, everything is
built with -O2 and has been for several years afair.
Not that I care much about it but apparently it doesn't seem to be
such a big problem everywhere?

mkb.