Re: [avr-gcc-list] New FreeBSD avr-gcc-devel 4.1.0 port fails to build

[Ned Konz]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> > (2) How does it compare with avr-gcc-3.4.6 code size, i.e., using
> > -Os optimization?
>
> In a large project I'm doing in my day job, it's been the first time a
> more recent compiler version finally reduced the code size again
> (after all the 3.x versions gradually increased the average code
> size).  The saving wasn't overwhelming though, about 5 %, but given
> that IAR used to be about 10 % better on average, we've at least
> regained half of that. ;-)

I just did a Portfile for Darwinports based on your freebsd port;  
comparing with my 4.0.2 version, the 4.1.0 version is a tiny bit  
larger (24 bytes out of 20K or so) in a couple of cases. Don't know why.

This may be considerably smaller than the 3.4.x range, though.

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