When building small programs for MSP430, the impact of the unused functions pulled in from the CRT libraries is quite noticeable. Most of these relates to feature that will never be used for MSP430 (Transactional memory, supporting shared objects and dynamic linking), or rarely used (exception handling).
The following patches change the default configuration for msp430-elf with the aim of reducing code size by removing these unsupported features. Related generic changes to GCC have been submitted here: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2019-11/msg00415.html (But note that the first patch to disable eh frame registry has been retracted as it's no longer necessary). I picked random C and C++ programs from the testsuite to give an indication of the size reduction: $ msp430-elf-gcc testsuite/gcc.dg/20000108-1.c -Os -msim -ffunction-sections \ -fdata-sections -Wl,-gc-sections Before: text data bss dec hex filename 708 242 28 978 3d2 20000108-1.exe After: text data bss dec hex filename 444 234 2 680 2a8 20000108-1.exe $ msp430-elf-g++ -msim -Os testsuite/g++.dg/abi/covariant5.C \ -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wl,-gc-sections Before: text data bss dec hex filename 4090 396 18 4504 1198 covariant5.exe Before (-fno-exceptions): text data bss dec hex filename 3912 396 18 4326 10e6 a.out After: text data bss dec hex filename 3396 122 2 3520 dc0 covariant5.exe The writeup for the -minrt patch has some more code size comparisons related to that option. Successfully regtested for msp430-elf. Ok to apply? Jozef Lawrynowicz (4): MSP430: Disable TM clone registry by default MSP430: Disable exception handling by default for C++ MSP430: Disable __cxa_atexit MSP430: Remove -minrt option config-ml.in | 13 +++++++++ gcc/config.gcc | 7 +++++ gcc/config/msp430/msp430.c | 9 +++++++ gcc/config/msp430/msp430.h | 20 +++++++++++--- gcc/config/msp430/msp430.opt | 4 +-- gcc/config/msp430/t-msp430 | 9 ++++--- gcc/doc/install.texi | 3 +++ gcc/doc/invoke.texi | 15 ++++------- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp1y/sized-dealloc2.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp2a/explicit1.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp2a/explicit2.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp2a/explicit5.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/dg.exp | 9 ++++++- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/eh/array1.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/eh/spec11.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/eh/spec6.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/ext/vla4.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/init/dso_handle1.C | 1 + gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/init/dso_handle2.C | 1 + gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/ipa/pr64612.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/cxa-atexit1.C | 1 + gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/other/error32.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/torture/dg-torture.exp | 9 ++++++- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/torture/pr34850.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/tree-ssa/ivopts-3.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/tree-ssa/pr33615.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/Wcatch-value-1.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/Wcatch-value-2.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/Wcatch-value-3.C | 2 +- .../g++.dg/warn/Wstringop-truncation-2.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/Wterminate1.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/pr83054.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/g++.other/cond5.C | 2 +- gcc/testsuite/g++.old-deja/old-deja.exp | 9 ++++++- gcc/testsuite/lib/gcc-dg.exp | 10 +++++++ gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp | 27 ++++++++++++++++--- libgcc/config.host | 3 ++- libgcc/config/msp430/t-msp430 | 6 +++++ libgcc/configure | 9 +++++++ libgcc/configure.ac | 8 ++++++ 40 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1