Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: generate labels at the beginning of unlikely sub-sections

2015-12-11 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 11/12/15 13:42, Jan Beulich wrote: > This is to limit symbol table growth, which would be quite a bit worse > if we went with the "label every unlikely sub-section contribution" > approach proposed previously. > > Older gas doesn't support quoted symbols, yet the result looks quite > bit better

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: generate labels at the beginning of unlikely sub-sections

2015-12-11 Thread Jan Beulich
This is to limit symbol table growth, which would be quite a bit worse if we went with the "label every unlikely sub-section contribution" approach proposed previously. Older gas doesn't support quoted symbols, yet the result looks quite bit better that way. Hence two variants get introduced, one