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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:58, Lance Tagliapietra <lancetag@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was noticing that kernel compiling is set up to have gcc pipe data from one pass to another, instead of using
> temporary files. On a memory constrained environment, this may not be the best idea (or at least I'd like to
> explore that idea). Instead of loading the assember, and having immediately being swapped out while the cc1 pass
> runs, it may make more sense to have the temp files being written, instead of the swap in and out, when compiling
> the various objects of the kernel.
>
> So, simply pulling out the -pipe from the compiler flag list didn't see to have the desired effect. I'm afraid I'm
> still missing something. I'm still observing the assembler being loaded.
>
> Thoughts?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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