Re: Huge Increase in Unstripped Executable Size G++ 2.95 to 3.2

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 08:06  AM, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:49:13PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Andi Kleen <ak at suse dot de> writes:
> >
> > |> Jim Wilson <wilson at tuliptree dot org> writes:
> > |>
> > |> > while DWARF2 debug info is designed
> > |> > to be more compact than stabs,
> > |>
> > |> That's a joke isn't it?
> >
> > You didn't read the whole message, did you?
>
> I think I did.  But I believe it is incorrect: the reason
> is that just the object files are much bigger too than with
> stabs, and these cannot be explained by "duplicated includes"
STABS was also eliding information on some types/vars that DWARF2 
wasn't, by default.
IIRC, This is fixed on the mainline, so see if object sizes are 
comparable now.
> -Andi