On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:02:27PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Converting inline __attribute__((format (printf,x,y) functions
> > to macros or statement expressions produces smaller objects
> >
> > before:
> > $ size vmlinux
> >textdata b
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I'm not seeing any change in text size with allyesconfig after applying
> > this patch with latest git:
>
> This is just x86 defconfig
>
allyesconfig should be able to capture any text savings that this patch
offers.
> > Joe, what version of gcc ar
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Joe, what version of gcc are you using?
>
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.2.2 20071128 (prerelease) (4.2.2-3.1mdv2008.0)
>
> It's definitely odd.
> The .o size changes are inconsistent.
> Some get bigger, some get smaller.
>
> The versioning ones I un
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > -static inline void __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2)))
> > -__simple_attr_check_format(const char *fmt, ...)
>
> It would be nice to have a testcase, but I guess it is because GCC can't
> inline variadic functions. The function gets identified as c
