* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:20:06PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > >> You should rename it then to "asmcall" or something.
> > > >
> > > > if then that should be a separate renaming patch.
> > >
> > > Well you're asking for the ugly hacks for out of tree code. [...]
> >
> > nice word-bending there. I'm asking for pre-existing annotations to
> > survive.
>
> What I'm objecting to is that you ask for this for your out of tree
> code without any justification on why exactly -- -pg should in theory
> work with -mregparms.
last i checked it didnt work - i'll re-check that.
but even taking the latency tracer completely out of the picture,
maintaining this information is useful - at least for some time.
> It's standard policy to require very good reasons for changes that are
> only useful for out of tree code. [...]
it's not just for out of tree code - it's to keep the information of the
calling convention maintained - we could need it in the future.
> Is it just because you didn't want to adapt the tracer for i386
> regparm? [...]
uhm, thank you for such accusations and personal attacks :-( How did i
deserve that?
Ingo
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