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Re: egcs 1.1.2 seems to generate bloated object code
- To: "Brian Cameron" <BCAMERON at tuc dot com>
- Subject: Re: egcs 1.1.2 seems to generate bloated object code
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 11:25:38 -0600
- cc: egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <s785dce8.009@tu_async_1.tuc.com>you write:
> I am noticing that "#include" statements seem to cause the object files
> to become even more bloated when I use egcs 1.1.2 with the "-g"
> option. This confuses me sincas far as I can tell, the header files I
> am including do not have any actual code in them.
But the compiler does need to emit various debugging information for items
found in those header files.
Note this information is not part of the load image and thus does not
effect the runtime memory requirements for the program.
It is certainly possible that egcs does not emit very compact debug symbols
relative to IBM's compilers.
jeff