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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 2015 14:44:58 -0700
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com>
To:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" <freebsd-testing@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Toolchain <freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org>, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fails to build sys/i386/boot2 with gcc 4.9
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On Mar 29, 2015, at 13:29, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> Just out of curiousity, what is it about newer compilers that cause
> the size of boot2 to increase so much?

Code generation is different, especially with regards to optimisations.  =
Longer code might be faster because the compiler decided to inline a few =
functions.  Unfortunately, I never saw any difference between -Os and =
-O2 in all of my tests (boot2 and other code).

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Rui Paulo






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