RE: GCC on IRIX 6.5

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ramesh Babu [mailto:rbabu@kelvin.ncl.res.in]
>Sent: 15 December 2000 03:49
>To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
>Subject: GCC on IRIX 6.5


>OS	:IRIX 6.5
>System	:SGI O2
>GCC ver.:2.95.2
>Linker	:SGI linker
>"as"	:SGI as

>Hi all,
>
>	I have installed precompiled binary version of gcc from SGI. I
>found that the binaries generated by GCC almost always are 50% bigger,
>when compared to the that generated by GCC on LINUX system. So, I compiled
>gcc from the source and still things did not improve much. Can any one
>tell me why. Is there a way to improve gcc performance. Any help will be
>appreciated.

  For reasons that I have no understanding of at all, gcc on some hosts
is configured to include quite a lot of debugging and relocation symbols
in the files it compiles. In this case you can generally get the file size
back down again by using the strip command (part of binutils).

      DaveK
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