From: Alessandro Rubini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [patch] shrink stage2 by 7%
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:08:29 +0200
> Preventing alignment, this is how my stage2 shrunk (it has both
> serial and netboot in)
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 rubini staff 90600 Sep 6 12:47 stage2/stage2.align
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 rubini staff 84396 Sep 6 12:48 stage2/stage2
>
> I think it's worth doing (if I could use those 6kB, I'd put in
> a real printf :)
What magic did you use? In my environment (gcc-2.95.3 (19991030),
binutils-2.9.5.0.42), the gain was only about 1.2KB...
Okuji
