Re: [TCLUG:11831] Binary bloat with egcs or gcc-2.95.2

[Jon Schewe <jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net>]

"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know how to get rid of the code bloat caused by compile under
> egcs-1.1.2 (or even earlier) and gcc-2.95.2?
> 
> What I mean is that I just compiled the 2.9.1.25 binutils and my previous
> version was the same (except it was the default supplied by Slackware).  The
> binary, /usr/bin/as, is many times larger than the original one.  It
> certainly seems faster, but I am not sure it is a good price to pay.  I have
> not found any command line switches that "magically" turn off code bloat -
> but there must be one somewhere.  Slackware managed to do it, right?
> 
Perhaps you need to strip the binary.  This takes off the symbol table
and a few other things you only need for debugging.  Just run strip on
the binary.
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