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Re: big binary



-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Rosenstein <rosen054@gold.tc.umn.edu>
To: egcs@cygnus.com <egcs@cygnus.com>
Date: 12 ήνθ 1998 γ. 15:28
Subject: big binary


>hi: i built the latest snapshot of egcs on an alpha rh5.0.  both with gcc
>2.7.2.3 and an earlier egcs (redhat rpm) release and binutils 2.8.0.1.23.
>the resulting executables are 5meg+ in size. i wonder about this-though
>they seem to compile ok and the compiled binaries seem to run ok.
>i built with --disable-haifa and --enable-shared.  there were several
>compile warnings during each build.
>the redhat rpm egcs executables are 1.7meg or so.
>i am just curious about the size differences.


I suppose that RedHat provides their distribution with stripped executables
... try strip --strip-debug /path-to-egcs-binaries/cc1
and cc1plus cc1obj for cplusplus and objective c





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