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Reviving linux-tiny

Posted Sep 27, 2007 14:17 UTC (Thu) by kjp (subscriber, #39639)
Parent article: Reviving linux-tiny

I dont understand why, for the majority of printk's where the format string is a literal, the compiler couldn't do a compile time check for the <Severity> code and decide whether or not to generate code for it.

I do similar things and it has worked for ages with gcc.

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