Re: ANNOUNCE: CE Linux Forum - Specification V1.0 draft

From: Nicolas Pitre
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 19:49:46 EST


On Wed, 19 May 2004, Tim Bird wrote:

> Verifying that something is supported correctly on multiple
> architectures is not simple. Yes, we know that the default
> optimization level for ARM is -Os. As recently as last month,
> there was a problem report about -Os on the gcc mailing list.

Incidentally, with all gcc-3.* in existence today, the kernel gets
miscompiled if -Os is not used on ARM due to a gcc bug. But this is not the
reason why -Os was chosen as default on ARM though.


Nicolas

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