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Re: gcc with binutils-2.11.2 on solaris

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann at godzilla dot ICS dot UCI dot EDU>
To: Manfred Hollstein <manfred dot h at gmx dot net>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:32:42 -0700
Subject: Re: gcc with binutils-2.11.2 on solaris
References: <200204180207.aa09108@gremlin-relay.ics.uci.edu><3CBE8FBD.9040404@gmx.net>

Manfred Hollstein <manfred.h@gmx.net> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > > On sparc-sun-solaris2.7 the size of unstripped binaries produced by
  > > gcc-3.0.4 configured to use binutils-2.11.2 is much smaller than the
  > > ones produced by the same compiler configured to use Sun's as and
  > > ld.
  > 
  > Did you try binutils-2.12, too? 

I wasn't aware that it was released. 
But I tried it now. 

  > I don't know if that affects Solaris,
  > but on Linux using -2.12 vs. standard binutils-2.11.90.0.8 on RHL 7.2
  > made executables smaller by appr. 10-15%

On sparc-solaris the executables produced when using 2.12 are smaller,
but only marginally so, < 1%

References:
- gcc with binutils-2.11.2 on solaris
  - From: Dan Nicolaescu
- Re: gcc with binutils-2.11.2 on solaris
  - From: Manfred Hollstein

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