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

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>]

Yep.  I didn't think debugging was being compiled in - because I didn't
explicity choose it.  For whatever reason, configure will default to using
it.  So I simply had to set CFLAGS to what I wanted before I ran configure.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@visi.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Reid Palmer" <reid@pconline.com>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:11831] Binary bloat with egcs or gcc-2.95.2


> 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)?
>
>
> --
>   Christopher Reid Palmer : http://www.innerfireworks.com/
>
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