[PATCH] arm64: remove redundant FRAME_POINTER kconfig option
Shi, Yang
yang.shi at linaro.org
Fri Nov 6 09:39:07 PST 2015
On 11/6/2015 9:35 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 09:23:38AM -0800, Shi, Yang wrote:
>> On 11/6/2015 8:25 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> However, the patch would allow one to
>>> disable FRAME_POINTERS (not sure it has any effect on the aarch64 gcc
>>> though).
>>
>> No, it doesn't. Actually, FRAME_POINTER could be disabled regardless of the
>> patch.
>
> In which case I suggest that we always select it just as a clearer
> statement that the feature cannot be disabled (and you never know what
> the compiler people decide to do in the future).
Do you mean select FRAME_POINTER in ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS?
Yes, we could, but this may cause other architectures which select
ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS to have FRAME_POINTER selected too.
Or we could do:
select FRAME_POINTER is ARM64
Thanks,
Yang
>
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