Dear Albert ARIBAUD, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > > OK, this is not even 0.1% of the size, but anyway... > > If the difference in size is marginal, then I prefer the implementation > that has the least 'quirks' and most closely complies with EABI/AAPCS.
Yes, I agree. On ARM the global pointermethod has both the advantage of being cleaner and giving slightly smaller code. > BTW your quick'n'dirty test puts GD at a fixed location identical for > code running before and after relocation, right? But do we not change > the stack location? Yes, we do. I just wanted to compile it for the code size difference; I did not attempt to make a perfect patch yet :-) Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] In an infinite universe all things are possible, including the possi- bility that the universe does not exist. - Terry Pratchett, _The Dark Side of the Sun_ _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
