Re: kernel compiler

["J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

On 20011025 Lost Logic wrote:
>GCC 3.0 Produces slower code, eh?  I was of the understanding that it 
>contained many more optimizations than previous versions...???
>
>Any way, I've been able to run my system based entirely on a fairly 
>recent GCC CVS-3.02 snapshot, including kernels, and everything EXCEPT 
>for glibc which is specifically incompatible according to the GNU folks.  
>
>By way of information however, neither of the GCC 3.0 releases (3.0.0 or 
>3.0.1) work at all on my system, and I cannot get a kernel to function 
>at better than -O2 (not that I could get that to work in 2.95.* or 
>2.96.* either).
>

-O3 activates -finline-functions:
`-finline-functions'
     Integrate all simple functions into their callers.  The compiler
     heuristically decides which functions are simple enough to be worth
     integrating in this way.

     If all calls to a given function are integrated, and the function
     is declared `static', then the function is normally not output as
     assembler code in its own right.

Last paragraph is the key. Perhaps previous gcc'd did not all his work
as the manual says (ie, did not kill the non-inline version, bug),
but people has got used to the bug, and see it as a feature.

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J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
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