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Just a little piece of code that helps you compress 4k intros better by trying out several command line parameters in a brute force manner. Mostly targeted at Unix people but should be easily adapted to other purposes and platforms as well. Had I coded this before Asm'05 I would have saved 35 bytes at least...
added on the 2005-08-10 23:45:25 by Marq
marq mä rakastan sua
Great idea, thanks for sharing it! This will save many people many precious bytes. And I think this could also be used to test different versions of gcc :-)
Whoa... after a hard day of crunching I managed to squeeze "Make it 4k" from 4096 to 4024 bytes. The preliminary run for "Je regrette" managed to shave it from 4077 to 4003. Easy bytes for patient people ;v)
A pretty good set of flags for GCC 3.2 seems to be (depending on the actual code):
-O -fno-inline -fexpensive-optimizations -fno-peephole -fforce-mem -fno-defer-pop -fno-keep-static-consts -fshort-double -fmerge-all-constants -fstrength-reduce -mcpu=i386 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -ffast-math
Feel free to comment. Beware that once you use short-double you can't call external libs with double parameters. Inlined math functions work fine, however.
A pretty good set of flags for GCC 3.2 seems to be (depending on the actual code):
-O -fno-inline -fexpensive-optimizations -fno-peephole -fforce-mem -fno-defer-pop -fno-keep-static-consts -fshort-double -fmerge-all-constants -fstrength-reduce -mcpu=i386 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -ffast-math
Feel free to comment. Beware that once you use short-double you can't call external libs with double parameters. Inlined math functions work fine, however.
simple and useful :)
Good job guy ;)
very interesting :) Maybe I'll try some 4k coding in the near future :)
as slack said "simple and useful"
thx marq :)
thx marq :)
Great idea and a good starting point for a more advanced tool.
You can easily script it so it looks for the best *compressed* code size.
You can also make it pass various -DDEFINE's so you may try all possible combinations of conditionally compiled code.
GCMasher rulez.
You can easily script it so it looks for the best *compressed* code size.
You can also make it pass various -DDEFINE's so you may try all possible combinations of conditionally compiled code.
GCMasher rulez.
Thx. I used it with Makefile parameters to deal with compressed code, but left that part as homework for the users :)
nice approach.
Nice tools, always saving dozen bytes! I added a progress bar for those are interested https://github.com/stfsux/egcm
Thanks for that - the code could indeed use some updating and a more complex example, but haven't gotten around to that...
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