From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: Marc.Espie@liafa1.liafa.jussieu.fr Cc: john@feith.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: Re: ridiculous amounts of padding Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:58:00 -0000 Message-id: <1220.916365101@hurl.cygnus.com> References: <199901142216.XAA13874@quatramaran.ens.fr> X-SW-Source: 1999-01n/msg00558.html In message < 199901142216.XAA13874@quatramaran.ens.fr >you write: > the main offender... -Os improved the code size, -fno-gcse improved it some > more, relaxing constant string alignment improved almost *nothing*. Just a note, global cse will make code larger in an attempt to make it faster. So this is not unexpected. > If someone would be interested in helping me tracking down code > differences, I am very interested... I hope someone will. > It may well be that I'm mistaken, or that I'm missing something obvious. > But until someone corrects me (or I find a solution myself), OpenBSD will > have to stay with gcc 2.8.1 (as much as I would like a change, personally). I'd be real suprised if in general gcc2.8 produced better code than egcs; there may be localized issues of course, but I'd be real suprised if on a global basis gcc-2.8 was better. jeff