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Re: increase in object code size
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Subject: Re: increase in object code size
- From: John Carr <jfc at mit dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 13:03:27 EDT
- Cc: Thomas dot Koenig at ciw dot uni-karlsruhe dot de, egcs at cygnus dot com
> You might check to see whether -fno-exceptions has an effect.
On 80386, -fno-exceptions reduces size by about 25%. "size -f" on
SVR4 and similar systems will show the size by section; you should see
an exception section (.eh_frame) about 30% as large as the code
section. This is present even in C code which doesn't use exceptions.