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

Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-03T08:56:52Z

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/