Re: [avr-gcc-list] modulo vs. loop (gcc 4.3.x bug)

[Joerg Wunsch]

Szikra Istvan <address@hidden> wrote:

> -bootloader section cannot have calls to the application section !

That's only your problem though.  The compiler can reasonably expect
you to include all its helper functions into the resulting binary.

I agree it's a pessimization here, but it's correct code.  The
compiler cannot have any idea about you distinguishing between an
application and a bootloader area.

Rule of thumb: whenever you are tempted to create a separate
..bootloader section, you are usually wrong.  The bootloader is simply
a standalone application of its own, so compile/link it that way.

> if I wanted modulo, I would have written %

It's a machine.  The optimizer is tuned to catch situations which the
developer didn't write in a machine-friendly (but usually in a
user-friendly) way, and from its point of view, your code probably
just looks like a poor attempt to write down a simple division/modulus
operation.  The only fault of the optimizer here is to not recognize
that including the library function will result in larger code.

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