Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:56:56 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install floppies Message-ID: <20010405145656.G28699@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010404073810.P27632@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:38:10AM %2B1000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104031427380.10147-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> <20010404073810.P27632@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:38:10AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2001-Apr-03 14:31:35 +0100, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> wrote: > >I was just thinking about the install floppies, particularly about the > >severe space problems that we have there. > > PR gnu/26083 includes patches gcc to support the same -malign-XXX=N > functionality as the i386. My kernel text segment shrank about 10% > when I built it with 32-bit alignment (ISO 16-byte jump and 32-byte > function alignment). The place to get this commited is in the FSF/GNU GCC repository. There is still time for 3.0-R *IF* you hurry. Is there some reason you are not working with the GCC guys on this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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