1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/examples/mswin-build/mkrelease b/examples/mswin-build/mkrelease
index 51dd3346b..6dfd6c87e 100755
--- a/examples/mswin-build/mkrelease
+++ b/examples/mswin-build/mkrelease
@@ -42,10 +42,15 @@ do
 
                 cd $i
                 make ${CONFIG}
-                # TODO:  add optimisations for clang/aarch64 build
+
+                # The clang/aarch64 build is not subject to optimisation.  The
+                # '-flto' option increased the size of the binary slightly (0.23%)
+                # and decreased the time to run the testsuite slightly (0.33%).
+                # It hardly seems worth bothering about.
+                #
                 if [ $i != "build_64a" ]
                 then
-                        # link time optimisation, fortify, stack protection
+                        # link time optimisation, stack protection
                         sed -e 's/^CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS="\(.*\)"$/CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS="\1 -flto -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4"/' \
                                 -e 's/^CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS=" /CONFIG_EXTRA_CFLAGS="/' \
                                 -e 's/^CONFIG_EXTRA_LDLIBS="\(.*\)"$/CONFIG_EXTRA_LDLIBS="\1 -l:libssp.a"/' \