>Hmmm...I don't think that that is a fair assesment of the linux
>kernel...From the standpoint of the desktop (where esentually the
>kernel is really targeted) -O2 makes much more sence...therefore hand
>optimaisation<sp> that are only valid with -O2, have been added on
>numerous occations...Why?
Unless and until somebody tries to build a kernel with -Os and reports on what
goes wrong, we can only speculate. But, in my view, adding "hand
optimisations" that presuppose a particular set of compiler options is fairly
inexcusable. Can you give specific examples of the constructs you think will
work with -O2 but fail with -Os?
p.
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