The libm size improvement built with "--enable-stack-protector=strong
--enable-bind-now=yes --enable-fortify-source=2":
Before:
text data bss dec hex filename
587304 860 12 588176 8f990 aarch64-linux-gnu-master/math/libm.so
962855 1068 12 963935 eb55f x86_64-linux-gnu-master/math/libm.so
1191222 5544 368 1197134 12444e powerpc64le-linux-gnu-master/math/libm.so
After:
text data bss dec hex filename
585192 860 12 586064 8f150 aarch64-linux-gnu/math/libm.so
960775 1068 12 961855 ead3f x86_64-linux-gnu/math/libm.so
1189174 5544 368 1195086 123c4e powerpc64le-linux-gnu/math/libm.so
The are small code changes for x86_64 and powerpc64le, which do not
affect performance; but on aarch64 with gcc-14 I see a slight better
code generation due the usage of ldq for floating point constant loading.
Reviewed-by: Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
