The currently released version of the optimizer is 2.0.24 - this may be verified by issuing the following command:
dco -about
Current release of the optimizer capable of processing assembly files
and generating assembly output for targets supporting
- conditional move CMOVcc
instructions
- SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and SSE4
extensions
Currently the optimizer is provided as a 64-bit executable for a
x86 Linux OS; the experimental version of the product for x86 64-bit Windows OS is also provided.
dco is designed to work with gcc C and Fortran compilers on Linux
or port of the gcc C and Fortran compilers on Windows ( e.g. mingw-w64 );
these compilers generate an assembly output of the compiled code - the way it is achieved is by specifying -S option during compilation.
While in 64-bit mode on Linux, dco was verified to work with the clang compiler version 9.0.1 - in the current version
of the dco we provide support for the clang as "experimental".
gcc versions 6 and later are recommended for use with the current version of dco.
Current release of the optimizer is capable to optimize only programs
to be linked in the lower 2GB of the address space; this corresponds
to gcc compiler options -mcmodel=small or -mcmodel=medium. Programs that
don't satisfy this requirement ( e.g. compiled with the -mcmodel=large compiler option )
shall not be optimized by dco.
dco's
users manual can be found here.
See this
on how to incorporate the optimizer with a compiler.
Contact us to
get assistance with questions related to the installation or usage of dco.
The product is provided only for a x86 Linux OS and x86 64 bit Windows OS.
- Download the product dco.zip
- Uncompress the package with the following command:
unzip dco.zip
the files extracted are:
dco
dcoas
dco.exe
dcoas.exe
-
Move the ( extracted ) files -
dco and dcoas on Linux,
dco.exe and dcoas.exe on Windows -
into a location(s) accessible for execution - part of the PATH environment variable - e.g.
/usr/local/bin on Linux.
Ensure that they have permission to be executed.
Optimizer uses temporary files stored in the directory
specified by the following environment variable ( in the order listed ):
TMPDIR
TMP
TEMP
If none of this environment variables is specified, the temporary files
are stored in the directory from where the optimizer was invoked.
Ensure that you have write/read access to the directory
where the temporary files will be stored.
The version of the optimizer for the x86 64 bit Windows OS requires certain environment ( e.g. DLL's ) to be present.
Installing mingw-w64 provides all what is necessary ( although there are other ways to satisfy these requirements ).
To uninstall the product, remove installed files from the locations
they were copied to.
The dco's
users manual is installed here.
See this
on how to incorporated the optimizer with a compiler.
You can read a summary of optimizers options from the command
line by invoking the optimizer with the
-h
option:
dco -h
The following is an example on how to use the optimizer.
To generated the dco
optimized object file source_file.o
from a C
language source file source_file.c,
use the following commands:
gcc -S -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables \
-ffast-math -march=x86-64 -m64 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -msse3 \
-fno-optimize-sibling-calls -freorder-blocks-algorithm=simple \
source_file.c
dco -i source_file.s -o osource_file.s
gcc -c -o source_file.o osource_file.s
rm osource_file.s source_file.s
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