Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures

From	Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel, linux.debian.ports.arm, linux.debian.devel, linux.debian.devel.release
Subject	Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures
Date	2024-01-13 19:50 +0100
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On 2024-01-11 18:38, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2024-01-11 13:24, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 11:28:19AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > >...
> > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 09:48:34AM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > > > Disabling debug symbols, enabling debug symbol zstd compression, using
> > > > split debug symbols (disabled BTF usage) should help here.
> > > 
> > > Okay, maybe more workarounds exist.  But none of them look really
> > > promising.
> > >...
> > 
> > gcc being a memory hog on for C++ code is a hard problem,
> > and debug symbols for C++ code can be a problem since
> > they might be > 1 GB for some binaries.
> > 
> > But gcc needing more than 4 GB for a small C kernel driver is not
> > a problem for the "Ability to further support 32bit architectures",
> > that's a gcc bug that should be reported upstream just like you wouldn't
> > suggest dropping amd64 if gcc would ICE on one kernel driver on that
> > architecture.
> 
> Or maybe just blame the kernel instead:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whkGHOmpM_1kNgzX1UDAs10+UuALcpeEWN29EE0m-my=w@mail.gmail.com/

And following the suggestion in that thread, I have just sent a patch fixing the issue:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240113183334.1690740-1-aurelien@aurel32.net/T/#u


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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
aurelien@aurel32.net                     http://aurel32.net

Thread

Ability to further support 32bit architectures Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2024-01-11 10:50 +0100
  Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com> - 2024-01-11 10:50 +0100
    Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2024-01-11 11:50 +0100
      Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2024-01-11 12:50 +0100
        Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2024-01-11 18:40 +0100
          Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> - 2024-01-13 19:50 +0100
      Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-01-11 17:10 +0100
        Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures YunQiang Su <wzssyqa@gmail.com> - 2024-01-12 17:20 +0100
          Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com> - 2024-01-12 19:30 +0100
            Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures rhys <rhys@neoquasar.org> - 2024-01-13 04:50 +0100
              Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures YunQiang Su <wzssyqa@gmail.com> - 2024-01-13 04:50 +0100
                Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures rhys <rhys@neoquasar.org> - 2024-01-13 14:20 +0100
                Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> - 2024-01-13 17:00 +0100
                Re: Offer to make a native 32-bit system avaiable rhys <rhys@neoquasar.org> - 2024-01-13 20:20 +0100
                Re: Offer to make a native 32-bit system avaiable Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com> - 2024-01-13 21:10 +0100
              Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures rhys <rhys@neoquasar.org> - 2024-01-13 14:30 +0100
    Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2024-01-12 23:40 +0100
      Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com> - 2024-01-13 17:40 +0100
        Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2024-01-13 18:00 +0100
  Re: Ability to further support 32bit architectures Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2024-01-11 11:50 +0100
  gcc displaying bullshit allocation numbers? (was: Re: Ability to  further support 32bit architectures) Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2024-01-13 18:00 +0100

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