From a7bb3c1396056248a71ea188f217de3f4876947e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denys Vlasenko Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:28:08 +0200 Subject: *: code shrink via NOINLINE function old new delta expand_vars_to_list - 2118 +2118 lzo1x_optimize - 1429 +1429 run_pipe 358 1775 +1417 arith_apply - 1335 +1335 mainQSort3 - 1198 +1198 logdir_open - 1163 +1163 rewrite - 1039 +1039 dump_identity - 987 +987 do_shm - 884 +884 cpio_o - 863 +863 cpio_main 1450 560 -890 ipcs_main 3442 2523 -919 bb_dump_dump 2611 1488 -1123 process_dev 4572 3405 -1167 logdirs_reopen 1308 86 -1222 arith 2084 707 -1377 mainSort 2622 1202 -1420 do_lzo_compress 2276 799 -1477 run_list 2491 943 -1548 expand_variables 2280 135 -2145 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 9/0 grow/shrink: 1/10 up/down: 12433/-13288) Total: -855 bytes Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko --- docs/keep_data_small.txt | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/keep_data_small.txt b/docs/keep_data_small.txt index 2ddbefa..2ba24e4 100644 --- a/docs/keep_data_small.txt +++ b/docs/keep_data_small.txt @@ -214,3 +214,34 @@ Result (non-static busybox built against glibc): text data bss dec hex filename 634416 2736 23856 661008 a1610 busybox 632580 2672 22944 658196 a0b14 busybox_noalign + + + + Keeping code small + +Set CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS="-fno-inline-functions-called-once", +produce "make bloatcheck", see the biggest auto-inlined functions. +Now, set CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS back to "", but add NOINLINE +to some of these functions. In 1.16.x timeframe, the results were +(annotated "make bloatcheck" output): + +function old new delta +expand_vars_to_list - 1712 +1712 win +lzo1x_optimize - 1429 +1429 win +arith_apply - 1326 +1326 win +read_interfaces - 1163 +1163 loss, leave w/o NOINLINE +logdir_open - 1148 +1148 win +check_deps - 1148 +1148 loss +rewrite - 1039 +1039 win +run_pipe 358 1396 +1038 win +write_status_file - 1029 +1029 almost the same, leave w/o NOINLINE +dump_identity - 987 +987 win +mainQSort3 - 921 +921 win +parse_one_line - 916 +916 loss +summarize - 897 +897 almost the same +do_shm - 884 +884 win +cpio_o - 863 +863 win +subCommand - 841 +841 loss +receive - 834 +834 loss + +855 bytes saved in total. -- cgit v1.1