Re: Linux 2.6.7-rc2

From: Albert Cahalan (albert_at_users.sf.net)
Date: 05/31/04

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Date:	31 May 2004 08:20:24 -0400

    Peter Osterlund writes:

    > If I put "#if 0" around the *wdata assignment in
    > nfs_writepage_sync, the stack usage goes down to 36,
    > so it looks like gcc is building a temporary structure
    > on the stack and then copies the whole thing to *wdata.

    This would be required because of the -Wno-strict-aliasing
    option. For the 2.7.xx kernels, how about we start off by
    replacing -Wno-strict-aliasing with -std=gnu99 ? It's been
    5 years since 1999. The "restrict" keyword is useful too.

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