On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org> wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> writes: >> >> Not to mention that in that case we might as well -- since we need a >> compiler anyway -- generate the machine code in user space; the JIT >> solution really only is useful if it can provide something that we can't >> do otherwise, e.g. enable it in secure boot environments. > > I can see there may be some setups which don't have a compiler > (e.g. I know some people don't use systemtap because of that) > But this needs a custom gcc install too as far as I understand.
fyi custom gcc is a single 13M binary. It doesn't depend on any include files or any libraries. and can be easily packaged together with perf... even for embedded environment. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
