From: Philipp K. K. <pk...@sp...> - 2016-01-11 10:01:46
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On 03.01.2016 20:28, Maarten Brock wrote: > Philipp, > > I seem to remember that not so long ago you changed 8 bit constants to 16 > bit. I have a strong feeling this is the cause for the recent complaints > about code increase, including switch statements. Before we start a > release schedule, I would like to know if this is true. Since you also > regularly check code sizes, can you please investigate? I'd consider this issue sufficiently resolved for a release. There are some corner cases with code size increase remaining. But the optimizations I subsequently introduced fixed nearly all code size regressions from making character literals int. And they resulted in further code size reductions, so that in total, code size is now smaller than before. > > In the meantime, I think we should upgrade the Distributed Compile Farm > with the latest gputils. It's been a long while since that was done, I > think. Sounds like a good thing to do, but probably a task for someone who knows the compile farm and gputilsbetter than me. Regression test results look ok to me. We've had a few further bug fixes, and support or more pic devices, but no really big changes recently. Philipp |