PATCH: Add --size-check=[error|warning]

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/14/2011 04:26 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> 
> Making the kernel build system check for certain newly introduced
> gas options would again require changes to the kernel sources,
> which is precisely what is impossible to do for past kernel releases
> (and bisection in particular).
> 

But something like "make CC='gcc -Wa,--size-check=warning'" should work,
I believe (tweaking may be required, but that's the idea).  Passing an
option to the assembler is a helluva lot easier than redirecting to a
different assembler.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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