On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 14:50 +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> Overall size from inline asm would only be smaller if there is any
> benefit from additional optimizations.
Correct. Function calls use fixed registers for everything, but macros
don't have to.
> Result with the test script from my la
Couldn't this have been worked around changing while to do-while and
refactoring the loop instead of creating a new variable, whose
handling takes space? I'm not sure it can be done because I'm on
vacation and reading mail through dialup access, but it might be worth
a try.
2008/7/9, Pavel Roskin
Pavel Roskin wrote:
By the way, read is not a part of grub-emu. We'll need to improve the
build system to make such oversights less likely. We also need "exit"
in grub-emu, as "reboot" doesn't sound right.
I think there should be emu arch that provides architecture specific
functionality. Th
Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 20:04 +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>
> > With old gcc versions without the "rol" optimization, even the 16
> > bit swap should be a function:
> >
>
> Or better yet, an asm statement.
>
> We should consider optimized assembly vs function call. Even
