On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Alexandre Pereira Nunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also regarding ARM, PR31849 > (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31849 > <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31849>) is a show stopper, > at least for some embedded bare metal targets, i.e. arm-elf and > arm-none-eabi. > > Until size optimization at least matches gcc 4.2, gcc 4.3 will have very > limited audience there. I'm not aware of gcc internals in order to help > with a fix, but I'm available to help testing, should anyone requires that.
This is by no means a release-blocker for 4.3 - the arm community would have to do something about this earlier. Also relevant benchmarks (CSiBE) show an overall improvement of 4.3 compared to 4.2. Richard.