Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:16:20 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: Michael Zhilin <mizhka@gmail.com>, "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MIPS code size strangeness Message-ID: <CAJ-VmokTECO2kfRKsBiESCCygfM8qh_NzL4pzik8H7KL6pw6HQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58332940.8030606@grosbein.net> References: <5831E800.60003@grosbein.net> <CAJ-VmokUfc2ABY1O0B7RqzfCmU_99VwnCmmHfhcRhM5NcH4Ubg@mail.gmail.com> <5832FF33.9010307@grosbein.net> <CAF19XB%2BwS%2BeCrv1mtmXLS1b7SJNZbQUD_2PFZXkhyvX-4wfeLQ@mail.gmail.com> <58330AB6.60306@grosbein.net> <CAF19XBLaZ=t_HPm079vsXvT5vBLunPib94d6=hNkzRd2xz5EPg@mail.gmail.com> <58332491.3000706@grosbein.net> <CAJ-Vmo=Zp2HFLcd5293G-9odo-8r=qa1j=FsJoD-jxMiMJXKAQ@mail.gmail.com> <58332940.8030606@grosbein.net>
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hi, yes - freebsd-wifi-build defaults to using external gcc now. Try that as a build and see. -adrian On 21 November 2016 at 09:05, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote: > On 21.11.2016 23:47, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> Hiya, >> >> Well, let's dig into it a bit more. See what the latest gcc (5, or 6) >> will do when building a freebsd mips userland. It may also be >> something stupid - eg we can mark some code to stop inlining. > > Is it possible to obtain gcc6 MIPS cross-compiler for FreeBSD11/amd64 (my build system) > and make our buildworld/buildkernel use it instead of stock gcc 4.2? > >> MIPS binaries are going to be bigger than CISC binaries - but it >> shouldn't be /that/ much bigger. If there's cut/paste code that we can >> uninline, libraryify, etc to save space then we should. > > The C-code in question is not big and has not "copy-paste" parts. >
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