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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Config.in: add -Ofast option
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 10:24:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180325082434.GF2620@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1521735971-22210-1-git-send-email-joshua.henderson@microchip.com>

Joshua, All,

On 2018-03-22 09:26 -0700, Joshua Henderson spake thusly:
> -Ofast (introduced in GCC 4.6) It combines the existing optimization level -O3
> with options that can affect standards compliance but result in better optimized
> code. For example, -Ofast enables -ffast-math.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Henderson <joshua.henderson@microchip.com>
> ---
>  Config.in           | 9 +++++++++
>  package/Makefile.in | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
> index 0002df5..e83ce02 100644
> --- a/Config.in
> +++ b/Config.in
> @@ -527,6 +527,15 @@ config BR2_OPTIMIZE_S
>  	  -ftree-vect-loop-version
>  	  This is the default.
>  
> +config BR2_OPTIMIZE_FAST
> +	bool "optimize for fast"

-Ofast was introduced in gcc-4.6, so you need a dependency:
    depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_6

Otherwise I'm fine with this.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> +	help
> +	  Optimize for fast. Disregard strict standards compliance. -Ofast
> +	  enables all -O3 optimizations. It also enables optimizations that are
> +	  not valid for all standard-compliant programs. It turns on -ffast-math
> +	  and the Fortran-specific -fstack-arrays, unless -fmax-stack-var-size
> +	  is specified, and -fno-protect-parens.
> +
>  endchoice
>  
>  config BR2_GOOGLE_BREAKPAD_ENABLE
> diff --git a/package/Makefile.in b/package/Makefile.in
> index e387ce6..828e12e 100644
> --- a/package/Makefile.in
> +++ b/package/Makefile.in
> @@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ endif
>  ifeq ($(BR2_OPTIMIZE_S),y)
>  TARGET_OPTIMIZATION = -Os
>  endif
> +ifeq ($(BR2_OPTIMIZE_FAST),y)
> +TARGET_OPTIMIZATION = -Ofast
> +endif
>  ifeq ($(BR2_DEBUG_1),y)
>  TARGET_DEBUGGING = -g1
>  endif
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-25  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-22 16:26 [Buildroot] [PATCH] Config.in: add -Ofast option Joshua Henderson
2018-03-25  8:24 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2018-03-25 20:40   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-26 16:12     ` Yann E. MORIN

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