Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:11:20 +0200 (CEST) From: bsd@picard.mandrakesoft.de To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc optimizer in -current system ... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909232009480.3675-100000@picard.mandrakesoft.de> In-Reply-To: <199909231803.LAA28917@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I tend not to like the higher optimization levels because they cause > the compiler to attempt to turn static functions into inlines and, > in my opinion, it doesn't do a very good job of selecting which functions > to convert. The result is that I see bloated binaries with no > performance gain to show for it. > > EGCS's -Os is my favorite. Have you tried specifying -O6 and -Os (With -Os following -O6 because we want it to override the values set by -O6)? I haven't tried it for a while, but at least in an older egcs snapshot (somewhere between 1.1.2 and gcc 2.95), it worked (optimize as much as possible, but value size over speed). LLaP bero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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