mrc
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:43:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Sure, you could sometimes get the slower case: more than a 2MB offset
> within a module, so that you'd have to use the trampoline, or if you're
> lazy and don't update the headers for dynamically linked libraries. But
> even then there would be the potential for icache win. And you could
> always have a "-mlarge-model" compiler option for those cases, so if you
> notice that you lose on this optimization, you just disable it.
--
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fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc
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