Re: [2.6 patch] add an -Os config option

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 08:43:30 EST


On Llu, 2003-08-11 at 22:11, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> +config OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
> + bool "Optimize for size" if EMBEDDED
> + default n
> + help
> + Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
> + resulting in a smaller kernel.
> +
> + The resulting kernel might be significantly slower.

With most of the gcc's I tried -Os was faster.

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