increase in object code size

[Thomas Koenig]

I recently compiled the 2.0.31-pre10 Linux i386 kernel egcs 970917, and
I noted an increase in object code size against compliation with gcc
2.7.2.1

For example, ~linux/drivers/net/3c59x.o grew from 20344 to 26308 bytes,
and ~linux/net/ipv4.o from 126775 to 179663 bytes.  Compile options were
standard for Linux, i.e. "-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce
-pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2".

Any idea what's causing this?  Are the options wrong?
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