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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Make gcc -align options .config-settable
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 03:17:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> wrote:
> >
> > With all alignment options set to 1 (minimum alignment),
> > I've got 5% smaller vmlinux compared to one built with
> > default code alignment.
> >
>
> Sam, can you process this one?
>
> >
> >
> > +GCC_VERSION = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh $(CC))
>
> It bugs me that we're evaluating the same thing down in arch/i386/Makefile.
> Perhaps we should evaluate GCC_VERSION once only, as some top-level kbuild
> thing. So everyone can assume that it's present and correct?

Started looking into this.
gcc does not document what happens if -falign-functions=x is specified more than
once. It works but I have not checked the effect.
It will occur for some CPU's

Sam

Current patch to top-level Makefile looks like this.

===== Makefile 1.542 vs edited =====
--- 1.542/Makefile 2004-10-17 02:00:48 +02:00
+++ edited/Makefile 2004-10-17 02:29:56 +02:00
@@ -295,6 +295,11 @@
cc-option-yn = $(shell if $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(1) -S -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null \
> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "y"; else echo "n"; fi;)

+# cc-option-align
+# Prefix align with either -falign or -malign
+cc-option-align = $(subst -functions=0,,\
+ $(call cc-option,-falign-functions=0,-malign-functions=0))
+
# cc-version
# Usage gcc-ver := $(call cc-version $(CC))
cc-version = $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gcc-version.sh \
@@ -497,6 +502,13 @@
else
CFLAGS += -O2
endif
+
+#Add aling options in CONFIG_CC_ not equal to 0
+add-align = $(if $(filter-out 0,$($(1))),$(cc-option-align)$(2)=$($(1)))
+CFLAGS += $(call add-align,CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_FUNCTIONS,-functions)
+CFLAGS += $(call add-align,CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LABELS,-labels)
+CFLAGS += $(call add-align,CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LOOPS,-loops)
+CFLAGS += $(call add-align,CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_JUMPS,-jumps)

ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
CFLAGS += -fno-omit-frame-pointer
-
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