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From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
To: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Fails to build sys/i386/boot2 with gcc 4.9
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> > I used this script to build with gcc 4.9:
> > 
> > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ci/blob/master/scripts/build/cross-build.sh
> > 
> > Buildling sys/i386/boot2 failed:
> ...
> > output: fmt=bin size=21ef text=200 data=1fef org=0 entry=0
> > -1007 bytes available
> > *** Error code 1
> 
> Oof, this is going to be hard to fix.  For some reason, boot2 is one of
> those programs that keeps getting worse (i.e. larger) with *each* new
> compiler version, be it gcc or clang!
> 
> The last few times when we imported a new clang version, we had to jump
> through several hoops, and attempted to shrink the code again with
> various cleanups.  Even then, we don't have a lot of headroom.
> 
> If it is now also becoming a problem with gcc 4.9, we should really
> start looking for a more permanent solution, e.g.:
> * Getting rid of the 7680 byte limit (seems to be impossible?)
> * Rewrite most of (or all of) boot2 in assembly

We can also get rid of UFS1 support... That shrinks the code a lot.