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Re: Code Bloat g++


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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