🚀 go-pugleaf

Apologies for the cross-post, but I figured that this might be of interest
(or perhaps known to) both camps..

Anyway, I've compiled the whole X11R3 suite (well, it's closer to X11R4
Beta, really.. Hmmm.) with GCC 1.36 with the following flags:

CCOPTIONS = -fcombine-regs -fstrength-reduce -ftraditional -DNOSTDHDRS -fforce-addr -fforce-mem -fcaller-saves -pipe

And everything went smoothly with nary a hitch (I have everything from libc.a
to libdbm.a compiled with gcc too, so I don't need to worry about pcc struct
return problems). Well, almost without a hitch. Xterm, which once worked
fine, now mysteriously refuses to do cursor motion properly while using the
alternate screen. That is to say if you have your termcap/terminfo entry
set up to use the alternate screen and you invoke vi or emacs, scrolling and
screen positioning go all to hell. This is very odd considering that
GCC seems to have done an exemplary job on other code 3 times as complex.

In any case, I'm quite impressed that gcc has done as well as it has
(especially considering that it's generating COFF encapsulated BSD
binaries on our system V box!) but would like to get rid of this last
nagging problem. Has anyone else seen it?

Oh, in case anyone is curious, here are some typical code size
savings (to say nothing of speed, which we're still in the process
of benchmarking) that we've gotten with gcc over our standard pcc
based compiler:

GCC Compiled:
/usr/bin/X11/xman: 225080 + 76048 + 15472 = 316600
/usr/bin/X11/xmh: 245560 + 74528 + 15796 = 335884
/usr/bin/X11/mwm: 474936 + 127864 + 20544 = 623344	(Mr Big).
/usr/bin/X11/xterm: 233272 + 88464 + 28612 = 350348

PCC Compiled:
/usr/bin/X11/xman: 279088 + 82280 + 15936 = 377304
/usr/bin/X11/xmh: 305652 + 80776 + 16212 = 402640
/usr/bin/X11/mwm: 614604 + 131604 + 20504 = 766712
/usr/bin/X11/xterm: 277024 + 95476 + 28620 = 401120


Not too shabby, eh? Over 140K saved with mwm alone!


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