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From: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@easynet.be>
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Subject: Re: CONFIG_TINY
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Mark Mielke wrote:
 > On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 07:33:01AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
 >
 >>>If gcc regularly generates larger code with -Os the answer is to talk to
 >>>the gcc people, not to avoid using -Os...
 >>
 >>It's not that it does regularly, it's that it can, and if it does, it's
 >>not really a gcc bug from what I recall.  So I don't think CONFIG_TINY
 >>should prefer -Os over -O2 but instead we should just ask the user what
 >>level of optimization they want.  Remember, one of the real important
 >>parts of embedded systems is flexibility.
 >
 >
 > Not to stretch this point too long, but turning off inlined functions 'can'
 > make code bigger too. It usually doesn't.
 >

GCC's -finline-limit=n should help to control this.

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