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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Minimizing the Kernel
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:39:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F721D2B.7070703@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200309241732.h8OHWj05015957@green.mif.pg.gda.pl



Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
>>>Well for starters dont use gcc 3 or above.. code size has increased
>>>dramatically with thoose versions. sure they give you more optimization
>>
>>Hmm, has anyone tried -Os with gcc3+ ?
>>Maybe that'd be good for size optimization?
> 
> 
> AFAIK, the -Os optimization in gcc3 gives you larger binary than -Os in
> gcc2.
> 

Any ideas why?  I mean, what does all the extra code DO?

And have you considered that some of that extra code might be there for 
correctness purposes?


  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-24 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-24 17:32 Minimizing the Kernel Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2003-09-24 22:39 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-25  4:54 rwhron
2003-09-25  2:22 rwhron
2003-09-24 16:32 Scott Robert Ladd
2003-09-24 16:39 ` Matt Heler
2003-09-24 17:13   ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-09-24 18:21     ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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