Re: Compiling with other optimization?

[Martin Egholm Nielsen <martin at egholm-nielsen dot dk>]

> > Now I've tried with "-Os" as optimisation, but I'm not able to see any
> > difference in library-sizes. My libgcj.so is still around 50 megs -
> I haven't noticed much size difference either with -Os (on linux-arm,
> in my case), but since your library is 50 megs, are you sure you
> stripped it?  I guess Java stuff contains a *lot* of debug info, which
> of course isn't any smaller when you compile with -Os...
There actually is a lot difference in size... I exported the variables:
CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, GCJFLAGS, TARGET_CFLAGS, TARGET_CXXFLAGS, and 
TARGET_GCJFLAGS to contain "-Os" and the resulting libgcj.so-file is 
only 13megs (unstripped) compared to the latter 50megs.
Similar, the libstdc++ library shrunk from 5.5 megs to approx 1 megs.

However, shrinking libgcj still only brings it down to 10 megs. So the 
outcome is the same...

*For Dan*: Maybe setting the optimisation in the CFLAGS- and 
CXXFLAGS-flags should be allowed. You could always put the optimisation 
in separate variables:
C_OPTIMISATION_LEVEL="1"
CXX_OPTIMISATION_LEVEL="s"
and then just use these when setting CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS later in your 
scripts. Then you can still check that the user has not set the CFLAGS 
and CXXFLAGS, as you do today, and then build CFLAGS="-fwhatever 
-O${C_OPTIMISATION_LEVEL}", afterwards.

Regards,
 Martin



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