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Date:      Mon, 05 Apr 1999 11:31:01 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot blocks
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990405113101.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990405110830.asmodai@wxs.nl>

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On 05-Apr-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> On 05-Apr-99 David O'Brien wrote:
>>> Just wanted to let people know that the unmodified boot blocks have
>>> 144 bytes free if you compile them -Os and -16 free if you compile
>>> them -O2.  
>> 
>> Were you able to actually boot the bootblocks compiled with EGCS and -Os
>> ? (I know the optimization gives us the space we need, but I'm not upto
>> testing new bootblocks at this moment)
> 
> Funny thing is that I get an option unknown: -Os when trying that
> solution. A -O instead of -O2 however solves my problem and leaves me with
> 188 bytes free.
> 
> Guess that means that my make world still uses (g)cc offcourse as it
> does not recognise the -Os flag.

Hmmm, hate to return on my own messages, but this is funny:

set -Os in make.conf and compiled everything with it, yet the bootblocks
don't like that option.

In the meantime I changed -O2 to -O in the boot2/Makefile

Something I missed here?

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