2006/1/26, Nigel Stephens <nigel@xxxxxxxx>: > > > Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > > >Could you please post your mipsel-linux-gcc -v output? It might help. > >I've never tried building Linux with any of the Sc/Sd/SmartMIPS options, > >so I really don't know what you could be experiencing. One thought that > >comes to mind is that the -march=4ksd option may be treated as a hint to > >generate compact code (for smart cards) in a way that -march=mips32r2 > >is not. I'll ask around... > > > > > > Assuming that this is the SDE compiler, then I think that the only yes it is (see my previous post) > significant thing which -march=4ksd will do differently from > -march=mips32r2 is to allow the compiler to generate branch-likely > instructions -- they're deprecated for generic mips32 code but carry no > penalty on the 4K core. It will also cause the compiler's "4kc" pipeline > description to be used for instruction scheduling, instead of the > default "24kc", but that should only change the order of instructions Do you mean that the code can be run faster when using -march=4ksd ? > and shouldn't really make a significant difference to the code size. > yes but I have :( Thanks -- Franck