On Friday 28 December 2007 23:13:24 Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:23:41PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >...
> > Noteworthy remarks on the unification:
> >...
> > - -funit-at-a-time should be easy to unify but it looks like we have a bug
> > in 32 bit. We only enable -funit-at-a-time for gcc less than 0400 if they
> > support it
>
> No, we _dis_able it on 32bit if a gcc < 4.0 supports it.
>
> > (and I recall it is a gcc 4.00 feature). [-lt -> -gt]
> >...
>
> unit-at-a-time was introduced in upstream gcc 3.4 and backported to some
> popular 3.3 x86_64 branch.
>
> i386 and x86_64 go in exactly opposite directions regarding when to use
> unit-at-a-time, but that was intentional and we should keep it that way.
i386 disabled it because there were claims that it increased stack size
too much, but I haven't seen any real evidence for that. That is why I never
added it to x86-64. On the other hand it tends to shrink text size considerably.
I think it should be reevaluated and enabled by default on i386 again.
BTW there is a patch pending for gcc 4.3+ that prevents optimizations
that increase stack size unduly. Not sure it has been added there yet,
but that was the right fix for these problems anyways.
-Andi
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