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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:23:50 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.kern.mk
Message-ID:  <19991117202350.A18826@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991117073421.D6BA21CC6@overcee.netplex.com.au>
References:  <199911170730.XAA76071@freefall.freebsd.org> <19991117073421.D6BA21CC6@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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-On [19991117 12:00], Peter Wemm (peter@netplex.com.au) wrote:
>"David E. O'Brien" wrote:
>> obrien      1999/11/16 23:30:36 PST
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     share/mk             bsd.kern.mk 
>>   Log:
>>   Make "-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2" the default on the i386.
>>   This reduces the size of the kernel and modules when compiled with GCC 2.95
>
>.. and reduces stack consumption, something we don't have a lot of in kernel
>mode.

Cool.

I did some compilation tests and still haven't encountered problems.

Of course people are invited to try and break it. =)

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
He travels the fastest who travels alone.


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