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Re: help with shriking binary size
- From: pkurpis at keck dot hawaii dot edu (Peter Kurpis)
- To: ccroswhite at get2chip dot com
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:15:58 -1000 (HST)
- Subject: Re: help with shriking binary size
> From gcc-help-return-10062-pkurpis=keck.hawaii.edu@gcc.gnu.org Wed Sep 11 13:06:35 2002
> I need some help. I have been running some comparisons with 2.95.3 and
> 3.2 and found that with the same machine and same source code, 3.2
> produces code that is larger by 25%-51% larger with no run time
> improvement (tested across several executables and test cases). Is
> there a way to shrink the size down to the same level as 2.95.3? Here
> are several cases:
>
> 2.95.3 3.2
> (-g):30560264 6246679(+51%)
> (-O):8889831 11198086(+26%)
> (-O2):8893383 11458534(+29%)
> (-O3):9009271 11252525(+25%)
Are these just binary sizes from ls , or segment sizes from size ? I am
not an expert, but this could be just the symbol table getting larger.
Also, you could try strip on the executables.
Second, are you using the same optimization settings? This would be a
factor, I would think...