From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Apr 5 14:57: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A330037B424 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:57:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f35Luvh30341; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:56:56 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Jeremy Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install floppies Message-ID: <20010405145656.G28699@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20010404073810.P27632@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010404073810.P27632@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:38:10AM +1000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:38:10AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2001-Apr-03 14:31:35 +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > >I was just thinking about the install floppies, particularly about the > >severe space problems that we have there. > > PR gnu/26083 includes patches gcc to support the same -malign-XXX=N > functionality as the i386. My kernel text segment shrank about 10% > when I built it with 32-bit alignment (ISO 16-byte jump and 32-byte > function alignment). The place to get this commited is in the FSF/GNU GCC repository. There is still time for 3.0-R *IF* you hurry. Is there some reason you are not working with the GCC guys on this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message