25-Sep-99 15:43 you wrote:
Hi
Usuing gcc-2.8.1 and i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiled gpc with no optimization, O1, and O2 (except part where O2 would crash)
Then used gpc to compile 4 of the demo programs.
While there was little difference between the no optimazation and the O2 version, the O1 version produced programs that were significantly smaller:
pi 248155 bytes power 253838 bytes schemademo 152992 bytes stringschemademo 153690 bytes
Are you shure that it's really size of programs and not debug info ? Using strip I got the following results:
no optimization -O1 -O pi 6924 bytes 6076 bytes 6524 bytes power 7616 bytes 6400 bytes 7104 bytes schemademo 4948 bytes 4788 bytes 4788 bytes stringschemademo 5912 bytes 5688 bytes 5688 bytes
Version, compiled with -O1 really smaller but not really significantly...
gpc version 19990610, based on 2.95.1 19990816 (release)
Hmm. Version 19990610 even if archive is called 19990813 ...
P.S. It's i586-pc-linux-gnu with shared libgpc, libgmp, etc ...