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Re: ridiculous amounts of padding
- To: Marc dot Espie at liafa1 dot liafa dot jussieu dot fr
- Subject: Re: ridiculous amounts of padding
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:51:41 -0700
- cc: john at feith dot com, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199901142216.XAA13874@quatramaran.ens.fr>you write:
> the main offender... -Os improved the code size, -fno-gcse improved it some
> more, relaxing constant string alignment improved almost *nothing*.
Just a note, global cse will make code larger in an attempt to make it
faster. So this is not unexpected.
> If someone would be interested in helping me tracking down code
> differences, I am very interested...
I hope someone will.
> It may well be that I'm mistaken, or that I'm missing something obvious.
> But until someone corrects me (or I find a solution myself), OpenBSD will
> have to stay with gcc 2.8.1 (as much as I would like a change, personally).
I'd be real suprised if in general gcc2.8 produced better code than egcs;
there may be localized issues of course, but I'd be real suprised if on a
global basis gcc-2.8 was better.
jeff