On Jan 28, 2008 1:03 AM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2008 12:55 AM, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2008 12:29 AM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Jan 28, 2008 12:10 AM, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm failing to understand why the following patch is changing the md5sum > > > > of the relative .o file > > > > > > > > Isn't the code included in the #if 0 #endif section supposed to be > > > > ignored by the compiler? > > > Yes, but I think the line numbers changes too and are also in the .o file. > > > > Dunno, but stripping the file make md5sum as follow: > > paolo@paolo-desktop:~/linux-2.6/kernel$ strip > > /home/paolo/Desktop/File\ punto\ o/* > > paolo@paolo-desktop:~/linux-2.6/kernel$ md5sum > > /home/paolo/Desktop/File\ punto\ o/* > > 2bf404e247edf33cf6fb99c37321cdb9 /home/paolo/Desktop/File punto o/error.o.after > > 2bf404e247edf33cf6fb99c37321cdb9 /home/paolo/Desktop/File punto > > o/error.o.before > Perfect. What was your problem? The problem was that I didn't expect to see different md5sum after removing some dead code. I'm working on a series of cleanup patches and I want to be sure that I'm NOT changing the .o file. I want to be sure that every single patch is just cleaning the code. What I wanted to do was: make a/b/c.o md5sum a/b/c.o applying the first patch make clean && make a/b/c.o md5sum a/b/c.o and so on. Should I add the strip command to the procedure? And if yes... why? Thanks! Ciao, -- Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
