From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 15 9: 1:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4747314BF1; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA21175; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 03:31:29 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991115120055.29373@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:00:55 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A call to squease more bytes from `boot2' Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <19991113152838.A16659@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19991113152838.A16659@dragon.nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 03:28:38PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 13 November 1999 at 15:28:38 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > Hi folks, > > Once again, `boot2' is the only thing holding us back from upgrading our > base compiler. The commit below plus -fdata-sections gets us to needing > to reduce another 100 bytes from `boot2'. > > This is an appeal to hackers to squeeze another 100 bytes out. It would > be preferable to use the ``egcs'' port as the compiler, but I presume > using the current system compiler would be OK too. I've just been doing some work in this area. I'll take a look. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message