Optimizations for the MIPS target

[Joe Buck]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:31:15PM +0300, Nikolaos Kavvadias wrote:
> My question here is: culdn't "-Os" optimization option force .align 0
> alignment? Is there any way to use the minimal data memory
> requirements for global symbols possible?

While it could, I hope that it does not go so far as to make the
reads unaligned (on processors that allow this).  -Os currently
optimizes well for speed as well as for space, and there's a substantial
performance penalty for unaligned reads and writes in many cases.