[PATCH 0/6] use binutils 2.36.1 and gcc 10 by default

[Rui Salvaterra]

HI, guys,

On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 at 13:00, Stijn Tintel <stijn at linux-ipv6.be> wrote:
>
> On 15/08/2021 14:53, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> >
> > Did you check if the size of some of our images changed?
> I did not. I can do that, but it'll take some time. I started regularly
> wiping build_dir/ staging_dir/ and tmp/ due to vague heisenbugs that
> kept appearing.

I did, at least superficially. The GCC 10 series does increase the
image sizes a bit (say, around 200 kiB on a 6.4 MiB ath79/74Kc image),
due to the new inliner heuristics. However, the GCC 11 series seems to
further tune the inliner, and the images are again smaller (still a
little bigger than with GCC 9).

Cheers,
Rui