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Date:      Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:05:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris Knight <chris@aims.com.au>
Subject:   RE: Comments on Release Building for -current
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020801140520.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020802024607.B2977-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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On 01-Aug-2002 Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> On 31-Jul-2002 Chris Knight wrote:
>> > ...
>> > the mfsroot floppy contents were too large
>> > ...
>> > the kern floppy contents were too large
>> > ...
>> > the fixit floppy contents were too large
>> > ...
>>
>> Oof.  It's like our binaries are suddenly very bloated.  Did this start
>> very recently (like in the past few days?)  Perhaps -mcpu=pentiumpro
>> bloats things and we should use NO_CPU_FLAGS when building crunches,
>> etc.
> 
> -mcpu=pentiumpro causes huge bloatage here (+400K text for a 2000K text
> kernel IIRC).  I quickly turned it off here.

Ok.  I'll make some patches to use NO_CPU_CFLAGS and NO_CPU_COPTFLAGS when
building stuff to go on the crunches as well as -Os.

>> We might also want to use -Os instead of -O when building the
>> kernels and crunches as well.
> 
> I'm surprised -Os [-falign...] isn't already the default for crunches.
> 
> Bruce
> 

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