increase in object code size

[Joe Buck]

> 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

You might check to see whether -fno-exceptions has an effect.  There
is some overhead to support propagating exceptions through, even in C
(at least with some of the three distinct exceptions implementations,
I think there isn't any for the setjmp/longjmp version).