Optiboot grows bigger with (Arduino IDE) avr-gcc 7.3.0

[WestfW]

Compiled with the version of avr-gcc (7.3.0) distributed with recent Arduino IDEs (1.8.13), optiboot grows 14 bytes. The normal versions still fit in 512 bytes, but attempts to build a non-blinking, EEPROM-support version (documented as possible) fail...

The area of code growth is not obvious :-(

See https://github.com/Optiboot/optiboot/issues/300

 make GCCROOT=/Applications/Arduino-1.8.13.app/Contents/Java/portable/packages/arduino/tools/avr-gcc/7.3.0-atmel3.6.1-arduino5/bin/ atmega328
avr-gcc (GCC) 7.3.0

/Applications/Arduino-1.8.13.app/Contents/Java/portable/packages/arduino/tools/avr-gcc/7.3.0-atmel3.6.1-arduino5/bin/avr-gcc -g -Wall -Os -fno-split-wide-types -mrelax -mmcu=atmega328p -DF_CPU=16000000L  -DBAUD_RATE=115200 -DLED_START_FLASHES=3              -c -o optiboot.o optiboot.c

/Applications/Arduino-1.8.13.app/Contents/Java/portable/packages/arduino/tools/avr-gcc/7.3.0-atmel3.6.1-arduino5/bin/avr-gcc -g -Wall -Os -fno-split-wide-types -mrelax -mmcu=atmega328p -DF_CPU=16000000L  -DBAUD_RATE=115200 -DLED_START_FLASHES=3            -Wl,--section-start=.text=0x7e00 -Wl,--section-start=.version=0x7ffe -Wl,--relax -nostartfiles -o optiboot_atmega328.elf optiboot.o 
/Applications/Arduino-1.8.13.app/Contents/Java/portable/packages/arduino/tools/avr-gcc/7.3.0-atmel3.6.1-arduino5/bin/avr-size optiboot_atmega328.elf
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    496       0       0     496     1f0 optiboot_atmega328.elf

 make atmega328
avr-gcc (AVR_8_bit_GNU_Toolchain_3.6.1_495) 5.4.0

avr-gcc -g -Wall -Os -fno-split-wide-types -mrelax -mmcu=atmega328p -DF_CPU=16000000L  -DBAUD_RATE=115200 -DLED_START_FLASHES=3              -c -o optiboot.o optiboot.c

avr-gcc -g -Wall -Os -fno-split-wide-types -mrelax -mmcu=atmega328p -DF_CPU=16000000L  -DBAUD_RATE=115200 -DLED_START_FLASHES=3            -Wl,--section-start=.text=0x7e00 -Wl,--section-start=.version=0x7ffe -Wl,--relax -nostartfiles -o optiboot_atmega328.elf optiboot.o 
avr-size optiboot_atmega328.elf
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    482       0       0     482     1e2 optiboot_atmega328.elf

[WestfW]

Huh. optiboot_x SHRINKS by two bytes. Which is especially odd since it looks like the part of code that grows is NOT the actual flash writing (which is substantially different.)

[WestfW]

Not particularly useful, but...

avr-gcc 5.4:

00007fc0 00000020 t do_spm
00007fb2 0000000e t getNch
00007f7e 00000018 T getch
00007e04 0000016c T main
00007ffe 00000002 R optiboot_version
00007e00 00000004 T pre_main
00007f70 0000000e T putch
00007fa2 00000010 T verifySpace
00007f96 0000000c T watchdogConfig

avr-gcc 7.3.0:

00007fce 00000020 t do_spm
00007fc0 0000000e t getNch
00007f8c 00000018 T getch
00007e04 0000017a T main
00007ffe 00000002 R optiboot_version
00007e00 00000004 T pre_main
00007f7e 0000000e T putch
00007fb0 00000010 T verifySpace
00007fa4 0000000c T watchdogConfig

[motolav]

I ran "make atmega328p" with GCC 11.1.0 and it shrunk 2 bytes compared to your 7.3.0 GCC 12 will have the mode_cc changes to the AVR target, which is already in master

[mcuee]

Please refer to here as well.

• https://github.com/Optiboot/optiboot/issues/355#issuecomment-1345109821

avr-gcc 7.3.0 is always worse than avr-gcc 5.4.0 when compiling optiboot.