On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 06:08:34 UTC, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> When compiled with GCC 8.1, vmlinux is significantly bigger than
> with GCC 4.8.
>
> When looking at the generated code with objdump, we notice that
> all functions and loops when a 16 bytes alignment. This significantly
> increases
When compiled with GCC 8.1, vmlinux is significantly bigger than
with GCC 4.8.
When looking at the generated code with objdump, we notice that
all functions and loops when a 16 bytes alignment. This significantly
increases the size of the kernel. It is pointless and even
counterproductive as on