FORTIFY_SOURCE for the kernel

[Mike A. Harris]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 12:31 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
>>Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 07:53 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 11:30 +0900, Warren Togami wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Going off at a tangent....what would people think of the idea of
>>>>>switching to -Os in $RPM_OPT_FLAGS _after_ FC5 is released?
>>>>
>>>>If it results in some form of improvement in performance, I'm all for it.
>>>
>>>
>>>The "s" in -Os stands for "size", not for "speed". So if -Os compiled
>>>code-execution is faster than the default CFLAGS, something must be
>>>broken elsewhere.
>>
>>Not necessarily.  The reduced size of the executable makes more
>>efficient use of CPU cache, which can have a net result of increased
>>speed as well.
> 
> I guess you have benchmarking code to prove this claim to upstream? ;)

Not personally, however other people at Red Hat do.

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