On (18/08/07 14:51), Andi Kleen didst pronounce: > On Friday 17 August 2007 23:07:33 Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > > Opinions as to why FASTCALL breaks on one machine are welcome. > > > > Could we get rid of FASTCALL? AFAIK the compiler should automatically > > choose the right calling convention? > > It was a nop for some time because register parameters are always enabled > on i386 and AFAIK no other architectures ever used it. Some out of tree > trees some to disable register parameters though, but that's not > really a concern. >
You're right. It now makes even less sense why it was a PPC64 machine that exhibited the problem. It should have made no difference at all. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
