From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 13 16:23:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 0CA0914BDC; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:23:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31D51CD438; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:23:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:23:42 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: David O'Brien Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A call to squease more bytes from `boot2' In-Reply-To: <19991113152838.A16659@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. Do you have any idea why the new compiler is generating so much more code than the old? Have any new optimizations been activated by default which could just be deactivated? Kris ---- Cthulhu for President! For when you're tired of choosing the _lesser_ of two evils.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message