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Embedded Linux
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Embedded Linux

by John Lombardo
July 2001
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 17m
English
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C Compiler

The GNU C compiler has several switches that enable you to choose how it optimizes the object code it produces. Optimization in this context refers to both the process of reducing the count of processor instructions, and ordering them correctly so that a given piece of executable code will run as quickly as possible. It’s not possible to optimize for both minimum size and maximum speed at the same time.

Compiler Options

When you generate executables for powerful general-purpose computers with lots of memory and disk space, it’s usually best to maximize execution speed at the expense of code size. Sometimes it’s nice to have debugging information, too. However, when you’re building an executable for an embedded application with little ...

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