Re: GCC 4.3.0 Status Report (2008-02-14)

[Alexandre Pereira Nunes <alexandre dot nunes at gmail dot com>]

Richard Guenther escreveu:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Alexandre Pereira Nunes
> <alexandre.nunes@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
> > Also regarding ARM, PR31849
> >  (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31849
> >  <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31849>) is a show stopper,
> >  at least for some embedded bare metal targets, i.e. arm-elf and
> >  arm-none-eabi.
> >
> >  Until size optimization at least matches gcc 4.2, gcc 4.3 will have very
> >  limited audience there. I'm not aware of gcc internals in order to help
> >  with a fix, but I'm available to help testing, should anyone requires that.
> >     
>
> This is by no means a release-blocker for 4.3 - the arm community would have to
> do something about this earlier.  Also relevant benchmarks (CSiBE) show an
> overall improvement of 4.3 compared to 4.2.
>
> Richard.
>   
When it comes to speed, it seems to me that I could reflect the 
benchmarks. When the goal is size, we have a problem, but I've misread 
the "stage 3" stuff, ignore me for the moment :-)