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Date:      Wed, 07 Apr 1999 21:07:34 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Subject:   Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990407210734.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <19990407221941.A91075@nagual.pp.ru>

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On 07-Apr-99 Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> The problem is deeper. When I reemove it, I got this error:
> 
> -2100 bytes available

tried with -O2 yet?
 
> it seems that boot2 needs to be reduced, and I don't know why it becomes
> that big and what can be reduced. First candidates are static cmd[512]
> and kernel[1024]. Please fix so it can be still compiled with gcc.

This raises an interesting point I think. Do we need to maintain gcc/egcs
compatibility? Or do we, since we track CURRENT, say: "alas, that's
progression for ye?"

Has there been an `official' consensus reached about this from core or
commiters?

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven     <http://www.freebsdzine.org>; 
asmodai(at)wxs.nl        The idea does not replace the work...
Network/Security Specialist      <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
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