From: John Carr <jfc@mit.edu>
To: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: increase in object code size
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 11:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199709231845.OAA14441@biohazard-cafe.MIT.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199709231738.KAA15868@atrus.synopsys.com>
> > On 80386, -fno-exceptions reduces size by about 25%.
>
> That much? On sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, size -A on a stripped cc1 from the
> latest snapshot gives
>
> section size addr
> .text 1537124 166460
> .eh_frame 72120 1980396
>
> .eh_frame is only 4.7% of .text here. Is the bloat that much larger
> for x86? Why?
On x86 every stack push requires a 7 byte entry in the traceback table
so the unwinder knows how to adjust the stack pointer to find the
return address.
The first optimization which comes to mind: an exception table entry
which does not apply to an instruction which can throw an exception
should be eliminated. In GNU C and C++ (and, I think, GNU Ada) only
function calls throw exceptions. That means there needs to be at most
one table entry per function call.
The second (x86 only): if a function does not have any exception
handlers and it has a frame pointer the unwinder does not need an
exception table. The return PC is at a known offset from the frame
pointer.
("exception handler" here includes implicitly defined handlers in C++
to call destructors for local variables.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-23 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-23 7:21 Thomas Koenig
1997-09-23 9:32 ` Joe Buck
1997-09-23 10:03 ` John Carr
1997-09-23 10:16 ` Joe Buck
[not found] ` <199709231716.KAA13154.cygnus.egcs@atrus.synopsys.com>
1997-09-23 10:34 ` Jason Merrill
1997-09-23 10:38 ` Joe Buck
1997-09-23 10:56 ` Thomas Koenig
1997-09-24 1:58 ` Jakub Jelinek
[not found] ` <199709231755.TAA00725.cygnus.egcs@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de>
1997-09-23 11:23 ` Jason Merrill
1997-09-24 2:33 ` Torbjorn Lindgren
1997-09-23 11:45 ` John Carr [this message]
1997-09-23 17:03 ` Richard Henderson
1997-09-23 17:16 ` Joe Buck
1997-09-28 14:43 ` Joern Rennecke
[not found] ` <199709240001.RAA05779.cygnus.egcs@dot.cygnus.com>
1997-09-23 18:25 ` Jason Merrill
1997-09-23 22:08 ` Richard Henderson
1997-09-23 22:46 ` Jason Merrill
1997-09-23 22:56 ` David S. Miller
1997-09-24 0:11 ` Richard Henderson
[not found] ` <199709231845.OAA14441.cygnus.egcs@biohazard-cafe.MIT.EDU>
1997-09-23 18:32 ` Jason Merrill
1997-09-24 3:12 ` code size/ linux -fno-strength-reduce Mark Phillips
1997-09-29 7:08 ` Horst von Brand
[not found] <199709231643.KAA27118@harmony.village.org>
1997-09-23 10:05 ` increase in object code size Thomas Koenig
[not found] <199709232337.TAA00381@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>
1997-09-23 18:21 ` Jason Merrill
1997-09-24 7:13 ` Horst von Brand
1997-09-23 19:09 Mike Stump
1997-09-23 21:29 ` Joe Buck
1997-09-24 9:46 Mike Stump
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