Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers

Vitaly Wool
2006-01-03T09:16:01Z

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 08:53 +0000, Russell King wrote:
>
>
>>On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:59:04PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:23:35PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>static void fn1(void *f)
>>>>{
>>>>}
>>>>
>>>>void fn2(void *f)
>>>>{
>>>> fn1(f);
>>>>}
>>>>
>>>>on ARM produces:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>On 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1 you only need -O for this (I just checked both x86
>>>and ARM compilers). I believe this came in with unit-at-a-time, as
>>>Arjan said - which was GCC 3.4.
>>>
>>>
>>Well, as demonstrated, it doesn't work with gcc 3.3. Since we aren't
>>about to increase the minimum gcc version to 3.4, this isn't acceptable.
>>
>>
>
>s/isn't acceptable/is suboptimal/
>
>
I'm afraid it _isn't_ _acceptable_ since it just can kill current XIP
implementation.

Vitaly