Link-time failures from "simple" CFLAGS changes

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> linuxppc-dev  writes:

> When I change -O2 to -O0 in my CFLAGS definition in Makefile thus:

> CFLAGS := -g $(CPPFLAGS) -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O0 \
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common

> CFLAGS := -g $(CPPFLAGS) -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 \
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common

> ...I am astounded to see thousands of unresolved references
> at kernel link time.  WTF?  Any ideas?

	GCC only inlines functions when optimizing and the Linux kernel
assumes inlining and other optimizations only present at -O2.  The Linux
kernel requires optimization at least, and only really is tested at -O2.

David


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