code size/ linux -fno-strength-reduce

[Horst von Brand]

Mark Phillips <M.S.Phillips@nortel.co.uk> said:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Thomas Koenig wrote:

> > 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

> [Suggests deleting '-fno-strength-reduce', after checking that that bug
>  is gone]

Also add '-fno-exceptions', the bloat is from support for throwing
exceptions through C code (which most probably won't work right anyway, so
why bother is beyond me).
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