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

[Christopher Reid Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

> 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?

strip(1)?


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