.ident & company (was Re: Basic block profiler out of libgcc)

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:50:12PM +0200, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> >  So I left it in.
> > The space issue should be solved by Jakub's string-merging patch
> > (automatically applied to .comment section, if I read it correctly).
> 
> Which requires binutils from CVS, assuming Jakub's patches have
> been committed now.

They must not have, or maybe they don't work on .comment.  Using today's
CVS sources for gcc and binutils, .ident is still accumulating quite a bit:

31% cd ~/build/install-2001-05-07/lib
32% ls -lF libstdc++.so.3.0.0 libgcc_s.so.0
-rw-r--r--    1 pme      pme        207434 May  7 19:27 libgcc_s.so.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 pme      pme       3753280 May  7 19:28 libstdc++.so.3.0.0*
33%
33% ../bin/strip -R .comment libstdc++.so.3.0.0 libgcc_s.so.0
34% ls -lF libstdc++.so.3.0.0 libgcc_s.so.0
-rw-r--r--    1 pme      pme         33988 May  7 19:31 libgcc_s.so.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 pme      pme        796944 May  7 19:31 libstdc++.so.3.0.0*
35%

And all this time I thought we were writing bloated code in libstdc++-v3.
Turns out it's 80% .ident strings!  :-)

I've been following this thread lately because it raises the same questions
that storing the command-line options in the .comment or .note sections
would; see the change-request thread taking place under PR 2678.


Phil

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