From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 13 16:57:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 644F914EF8; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:57:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5539A1CD43B; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:57:36 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A call to squease more bytes from `boot2' In-Reply-To: <19991113164939.F90421@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: > On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 04:23:42PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Do you have any idea why the new compiler is generating so much more code > > than the old? > > Nope. I can post the "-S" output if you like. But the EGCS vs. GCC > versions are quite different. There were many changes to the back end > between the EGCS 1.1 and GCC 2.95 branches. Hmm, if they bloated the compiler output without giving the ability to conditionally de-bloat then it indeed sucks. Good luck :( 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