Jonathan Adams wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 11:15:40PM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > > Is there any RFE yet which asks to compile the whole kernel+tools with > > "-xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all" to improve the footprint a little bit for > > Sun Forte/Workshop/Studio builds (I've checked the bug database but > > couldn't find anything matching... ;-( ) ? gcc already does the same by > > default (without setting any flags) so it may be worth to do the same > > for the Sun Forte/Workshop/Studio compiler, too... > > How would -xbuiltin=%all *improve* the footprint? Generally, inlining > bloats the text segment.
Actually I would count it more as performance improvement (this is why I made it the default for Mozilla) - but real-world tesing with Mozilla showed that the total binary size of Mozilla (e.g. which is now called Seamonkey) was smaller (static build) with -xbuiltin=%all than without it... but I have no clue about the "why" ... ;-/ ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
