Size of generated programs (fwd)

[Elliot Lee]

On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Bill Walker wrote:

> > I've had egcs up and running for a few days now, and have encountered no
> > problems with the programs I've compiled (other than the ones I make for 
> > myself).  One thing I've noticed is that the stripped executables are 
> > significantly larger than those I get with gcc2.  I compile with
> > 
> > -O3 -ffast-math -funroll-loops -malign-*=0  -malign-double -march=pentium (or
> > -m486).
> 
> 	I have had essentially the same experience, with C, FORTRAN,
> and C++.  The increase is anywhere from about 2% to about 10%, after
> stripping, and running through mcs -d.  OTOH, the egcs compiler seems to
> compile things that I just couldn't compile before, so I consider it
> a wash.

Add -fno-exceptions to the command line.

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