[PATCH] force -mno-string option on cell
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Mar 24 06:46:48 EST 2007
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 17:35 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Nack. If GCC is now putting string instructions even if you don't
> > specify -mstring than we also need this for CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE. Please
> > fix that up as well.
>
> In the absence of -mstring and -mno-string options,
> GCC will default to either on or off based on other
> options (CPU model, mostly). This is good behaviour
> since it intends to give you the best code sequences
> for whatever CPU you selected (or for a blended CPU
> model etc).
strings instructions suck, get away with it.
Ben.
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