gcc 4.1 code size

[Giovanni Bajo]

Andreas Killaitis <andreas@killaitis.net> wrote:

> I was now astonished
> that my tests with gcc 4.1 showed that the library size has been
> grown by about 10%.

> The used compile options are:
>
> [...]
> -O3


Don't expect GCC to optimize code size at -O3. -O3 means -O2 *and* inline as
much as it makes sense to do, so it's really not a good option if you're
interested in code size.

Giovanni Bajo