Re: [avr-gcc-list] Urgent Queries about AVR-GCC

[Neil Johnson]

> I tracked down the reason, and it's the IAR optimization called
> "cross-call optimization".

More commonly known as tail-merging or cross-linking.  An early example of
code factoring that, as you have found, can make a big difference.  If
anyone's interested, AbsInt have developed a post-link tool called aiPop:

        http://www.absint.de/aipop/

that does tail-merging and all sorts of other fun tricks.  So far they
have only developed a version for the Siemens C16x/ST10 micros (obviously
aiming for the automotive market ;-)

> I don't know how hard this would be to add, and I definitely don't know
> how to do it.  However, from my perspective it is "low-hanging fruit". (I
> need those 4K bytes.)

I guess one way to do it yourself is to pull out the common tails into
your own functions, and hope that GCC spots that you're doing a tail call
and converts the rcall/ret into an rjmp.

You could try it...it might work.

Cheers,
Neil

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