[PATCH] make dir/file.o is still broken :(

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Mar 14 18:03:15 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 14 March 2006 1:11 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Monday 13 March 2006 17:28, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > make: *** [applets/applets.o] Error 1
> > > # make applets/applets.s
> > > make: *** No rule to make target `applets/applets.s'.  Stop.
> >
> > Why on earth are you trying to make an assembly file?  We don't do that
> > anywhere in the tree, to we?  It's not portable...
>
> I use it to see what actual code is generated. Helps to understand
> where exactly it grows too much. Remember those "shrink unlzma by 50%"
> patches?

Ah.  I generally just fiddle around with objdump -D if I get curious...

> > > It also adds a "make dir/file.i" target for generating preprocessed C
> > > file.
> >
> > Why would we want to do this?
>
> For debugging reasons.

Ok.

Bernhard reverted the make thing so it's moot at the moment...

> --
> vda

Rob
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