[cfe-dev] Best practices

[Devchandra L Meetei]

If this is the case, Too bad.

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Domagoj Saric <
domagoj.saric at littleendian.com> wrote:

> On 23.9.2012. 16:21, Devchandra L Meetei wrote:
> > Hi clangers
> > is there any best practices which can be used to to reduce disk
> footprints of
> > executable and lib generated by clangs,
> > Usually binaries generated by clang is larger than those of gcc.
>
>
> I can confirm that Clang's record WRT codegen size is quite far from good.
> The main problems I've identified are:
> - excessive inlining (even with -Os)
> - template bloat
> - no support for fno-inline, -fno-inline-functions or -finline-limit
>
> Here are some related tickets by me (you can find some tips how to
> "minimize damage"):
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.**cgi?id=11625<http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11625>
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.**cgi?id=11633<http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11633>
>
> By others:
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.**cgi?id=4435<http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4435>
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.**cgi?id=4573<http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4573>
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.**cgi?id=5124<http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=5124>
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.**cgi?id=11083<http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11083>
>
> These don't help either:
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.**cgi?id=11544<http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11544>
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.**cgi?id=11624<http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11624>
>
>
> ...from the date of the tickets and lack of response one can only deduce
> that this is of no or very low priority to Clang developers (or in "bitch
> mode": they only care about synthetic benchmarks and not about real world
> behaviour)... :/
>
>
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