On 5/17/05, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > So the speed improvement is enough to justify this? I could understand Fedora Core's kernels have this feature, but was a bit suprised to see the same issue in RHEL. Cheers Mike -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
