Re: 3.2 code bloat from debug info

[Glenn Burkhardt <glenn at aoi-industries dot com>]

On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:39 pm, Jim Wilson wrote:
> Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
> >                  2.96            2.98            3.3.2           3.3.2
> > 		dwarf-2          stabs+         dwarf-2          stabs+
> > dclock.o        121684           131812         252108		278964
> > main.o		133392		 143388		263548		294596
> > moc_dclock.o	158896		 170160		293108		330356
>
> Looking at .o files is misleading.  For stabs, we have link time
> optimizations to eliminate duplicate debug info.  We do not yet have
> this for dwarf2.  The result is that after linking the stabs debug info
> is likely to be significantly smaller than the dwarf2 debug info.

I have the total executable sizes as well:
                  2.96            2.98            3.3.2           3.3.2
 		dwarf-2          stabs+         dwarf-2      stabs+
dclock	425707	    210135	  	465494	 374558

This was a link against the Qt 3.1.1 dynamic libraries.  I still have to 
figure out why my other application, which is a considerably larger program, 
had a 6x increase in size.