-Og changes on 4.7.3?

2013-05-12 Thread Gene Smith
Could the -Og patches for 4.8 be back-ported to 4.7.3? Or is there important 4.8 dependencies that would make this not practicable? The patches to add -Og shown on gcc.patches list don't look extremely extensive. This would be for personal use and not necessarily proposed for general release

4.8.2 -Og vs. -O1

2013-06-30 Thread Gene Smith
I tried -Og optimization on a recent svn snapshot of 4.8 and don't see much difference in the code compared to -O1. If anything, at least for one case, -Og is actually less debuggable than -O1, e.g., for a simple buffer selection like this: uint8_t* buffer; if (condx == true) buffer =