14 Nov
2010
14 Nov
'10
9:42 p.m.
Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
In message 4CE04241.7070407@free.fr 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 :-)
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Wolfgang Denk
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