[PATCH]: further shrinking of boot2

Roman Divacky rdivacky at vlakno.cz
Fri Nov 21 19:39:27 UTC 2014


Sure thing. Reload the patch from the same url.

        http://rys.vlakno.cz/~rdivacky/boot2.diet.patch

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:16:58AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, November 21, 2014 01:56:32 PM Roman Divacky wrote:
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > In an effort to help import clang3.5 I looked at squeezing a few more bytes
> > from boot2.
> > 
> > 
> >         http://rys.vlakno.cz/~rdivacky/boot2.diet.patch
> > 
> > 
> > Please test and review the patch. It survived my qemu boot attempt so it's
> > not completely broken. But I would like to have some more testing and review
> > comments before I move forward with this.
> > 
> > Fwiw, it shrinks boot2 by 16 bytes when compiled with clang34 and by 28
> > bytes when compiled with clang35.
> 
> I would prefer 'int k' over 'int i2/j2'.  Also, do you really have to move
> the variable definitions to get the size change?  I'd prefer to leave the
> variable declarations where they are if possible (and just add 'int k' or
> 'size_t k' in the existing variable blocks).
> 
> -- 
> John Baldwin


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