https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61577
--- Comment #127 from dave.anglin at bell dot net --- On 2020-01-25 9:16 p.m., peter.bisroev at groundlabs dot com wrote: > As can be seen above, stage1 binaries are just under 9 times the size of final > -O2 compiled binaries. I believe you have mentioned that this is due the use > of > -O0 for stage1 compilation. But is such increase as seen above expected? The stage1 sizes are much larger than I would have expected. However, I wouldn't worry about it since the compiler can rebuild itself. There must be a long pattern in ia64.md that's used a lot. Let's focus on issues important for c++.