romcc-0.36 with -O2 8 registers are sufficient

Stefan Reinauer stepan at suse.de
Tue Oct 14 10:20:01 CEST 2003


* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com> [031011 20:38]:
> I just got to looking at my test cases and I have successfully
> compiled all of my test cases that are derivatives of actual
> memory initialization code with -O2 and no extra registers.

It also translates the K8 smbus_write_byte() function now.. great!
 
> Which is a very good sign for the case of using extra registers
> to avoid inlining subroutines.

Does this mean we can push the size of the linuxbios image down 
noticably now?

Stefan
  
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