Re: [PATCH][2.5] Double quote patches part one: drivers 1/2

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:16:56 +0100


rmk@arm.linux.org.uk said:
> and then read kernel/fork.s ? Yes, some people who care about getting
> the best out of the kernel do convert C to assembly and then read the
> result. If there's something really yucky in there, then you go back
> and fix it in the C source.

s/C/compiler/

Or were you _really_ advocating the kind of development methodology which
gave us all those gotos to out-of-line code which gcc helpfully moved back
in-line for us when it got a little smarter because someone else observed
the same problem and fixed it _properly_?

Tweaking your code and sacrificing chickens until you happen to get the
output you want is no substitute for fixing the compiler. And it's a waste
of good chickens.

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dwmw2

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