On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 10:29 +1200, Mike Honeyfield wrote: > I am just wondering the reasoning behind having the experimental > option "Use register arguments" on in the kernel config. > > It has caused some issues for me, have since fixed it, but was > wondering why an experimental feature that could/can break the ABI for > 3rd party binary only modules would be enabled? Speed. Pushing data onto the stack takes longer than just shoving it into a register. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://fedora.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72
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