On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > An allyesconfig (CONFIG_FTRACE disabled) on x86_64 with gcc 4.3.2 results in > the following vmlinux sizes: > > 574152755 2009-08-16 20:05 vmlinux-orig > 574862000 2009-08-16 20:13 vmlinux-skb-inline It's more relevant to look at just code size. BUG_ON() has more of an impact on data sizes, because it does something like 10-12 bytes of exception data for each bug-on. But that exception data is out-of-line and not interesting. If the code size blows up a lot, that's worse than if the data size expands a bit. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html