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Re: Code Bloat g++
- To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: Code Bloat g++
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:29:42 +0100 (CET)
- cc: NEELAKANTH dot NADGIR at sun dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> Anyway, as Alexandre points out: this is debugging information, so
> what is the problem?
When compiling template-heavy C++ code with -g, GCC generates huuuuge
.s files which take 10+ minutes to assemble with Sun as, even on a fast
UltraSPARC.
It might be that GNU as is faster, but the size of .s files with debugging
information on sparc-sun-solaris2.6 alone is prohibitive.
Gerald
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