unix/Makefile: Disable error compression on arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc.

jimmo · dpgeorge · commit 0c2cadf1c8c7 · 2021-08-17T11:20:58.000+10:00
This compiler is unable to optimise out the giant strcmp match generated by MP_MATCH_COMPRESSED. See github.com//pull/7659#issuecomment-899479793 Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
diff --git a/ports/unix/Makefile b/ports/unix/Makefile
@@ -290,6 +290,17 @@ else
 RUN_TESTS_MPY_CROSS_FLAGS = --mpy-cross-flags='-mcache-lookup-bc'
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),arm-linux-gnueabi-)
+# Force disable error text compression when compiling for ARM as the compiler
+# cannot optimise out the giant strcmp list generated for MP_MATCH_COMPRESSED.
+# Checked on:
+# arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0
+# arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0
+# See https://github.com/micropython/micropython/pull/7659 for details.
+$(info Detected arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc. Disabling error message compression.)
+MICROPY_ROM_TEXT_COMPRESSION = 0
+endif
+
 include $(TOP)/py/mkrules.mk
 
 .PHONY: test test_full
