[uClibc]Re: setjmp/longjmp and others

[Erik Andersen]

On Tue Jan 08, 2002 at 01:25:57PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Erik Andersen <andersen at codepoet.org> writes:
> > > Note that adding '-falign-functions=0' to the compile flags for
> > > uClibc can decrease it's size by several percent.
> > 
> > I have that now for x86.  It wasn't certain that it was
> > safe as a general case optimization.  Are you certain that
> > would be safe for ARM, sparc, etc?
> 
> `-falign-functions' seems to be a gcc 3.x thing; gcc 2.95 only supports the
> machine-dependent option `-malign-functions' (on selected processors).
> Even if this option were safe, I suspect that many people compiling uClibc,
> especially those using non-mainstream processors, are not using gcc 3.x yet.

Right.  I test the compiler before enabling it.

 -Erik

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