Big kernel size increase with gcc 3.4

Bernardo Innocenti bernie@develer.com
Fri Aug 8 17:15:00 GMT 2003


Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 04:39:02AM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> 
>>- same optimization flags: -m5307 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
>>     -fno-common -fno-builtin -fomit-frame-pointer
> 
> You should try -Os if you want to optimize for size.

I did some time ago, and it seems to reduce the code size greatly,
but then I noticed some problems with the memory allocator and
switched back to -O2 for fear that changing the inlining policy
could lead to instability.

I still see those memory allocator problems, so I think I could
safely switch back to -Os now... actually I would recommend it
for all embedded targets.

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