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Subject: Re: INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE doesn't work anymore
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On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

> Including "options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE", while it doesn't break the
> kernel build, no longer actually seems to include the config file in the
> kernel.  Using the magic "strings -n 3 ..." incantation returns only a
> couple of lines of gibberish now. 

It could be that gcc 3.4 is cleverly optimization out the unused symbols?

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research