On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:13:44AM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > Configuration hacks that are specific to a single core create cruft and > maintenence problems. As I said yesterday, I think we'd be much better > off to have a CONFIG_CPU_MIPS_SMALL or some such option > that could cause -Os to be used, allow branch-likelies, etc. There is already CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE. Unfortunately gcc has begun to avoid gcc totally since it was marked "deprecated" in the architecture spec even though in the real world branch likely often is a win. Ralf