longcall probelm (RE: was MVME2304 Exception 3 )

Feng, Shuchen feng at bnl.gov
Fri Sep 19 17:17:00 UTC 2003


Till Straumann wrote:

>  Kate.

>  Why would you want the -mlongcall flag? Do you anticipate ever needing
>  more than
>  32M of text/code space?? Note that -mlongcall incurs both, a speed and
>  space penalty.


You are right about the speed penalty.  I was just  thinking about
an easy way of recompiling the dynamic loaded application without
the need to rebuild the  RTEMS kernel (e.g. GeSys).

Thanks,
Kate



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