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Re: Code Bloat g++
- To: Neelakanth Nadgir <NEELAKANTH dot NADGIR at SUN dot COM>
- Subject: Re: Code Bloat g++
- From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at lsd dot ic dot unicamp dot br>
- Date: 15 Feb 2000 18:30:25 -0200
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20000215115039.A2292@neel>
On Feb 15, 2000, Neelakanth Nadgir <NEELAKANTH.NADGIR@SUN.COM> wrote:
> I am not sure if this is the right place to discuss this, but I am
> seeing massive code bloat with g++ 2.95.2
> The unstripped exe is 3x larger.
So it's not *code* bloat, it's just the debugging information, with
large symbol names, that take up a lot of space. -fsquangle should
make them smaller, but you'll have to rebuild the whole libstdc++.
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