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SubjectRe: Re : Re : Re : Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Etienne Lorrain wrote:
>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> I've long wished that someone would do a proper 16-bit x86 port of gcc;
>>
>>> however, the .code16gcc is usually good enough, although it produces code
>>> which is a lot bigger than it needs to be.
>>
>> It is only that much bigger if you compare to 16 bits integer compilers,
>> but once you deal with 32 bits integers in real mode you have one extra byte
>> out of the two - which is still better than dealing with dx:ax.
>>
>> Last time I compiled (long time ago) some piece of code with and without
>> .code16gcc it was approx 15% bigger - approx what you get when optimising.
>>
>
> That's not a valid comparison, because you're using 32-bit registers to hold
> 16-bit pointers, and then sticking 67 prefixes on completely unnecessarily.

Regardless if the size is good enough we can use it :)

For romcc I had a 3x code bloat over had crafted assembler, because I
had no memory and had to inline every single function call because I
didn't have someplace to put a return register. So I have the
scenario with the most code bloat. I win!

Eric
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