MIPS code size strangeness

[Adrian Chadd]

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 at 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.
>