From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kim Phillips Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:47:59 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH] Update malloc to dlmalloc version 2.8.4 In-Reply-To: <720F17F7-4145-49F8-9554-5A381319446F@kernel.crashing.org> References: <1246984027-8136-1-git-send-email-galak@kernel.crashing.org> <200907071434.33729.vapier@gentoo.org> <20090707191627.GE3979@email.mot.com> <720F17F7-4145-49F8-9554-5A381319446F@kernel.crashing.org> Message-ID: <20090707154759.2005cc75.kim.phillips@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:50:31 -0500 Kumar Gala wrote: > Those would help if the data structs had gotten bigger. In this case > the code itself is just larger. fyi, gcc4.4.0 apparently doesn't like to emit ld/st multiple insns as much as prior versions did. NAND bootstraps don't fit, e.g., because of the code density savings ld/st multiples make: e.g., mpc8313erdb.o is 322 bytes text with gcc 4.2.1 and is now 476 bytes text with gcc4.4... btw, fixes for upstream gcc should be under way in the next couple of days. Kim