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Re: bootstrap build bigger than non-bootstrap?
On 03/12/2012 10:09 AM, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc <at> gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> On 11 March 2012 16:37, Christer Solskogen wrote:
>>>> How come a bootstrap build of gcc is almost triple the size as a
>>>> non-boostrap build?
>>>
>>>
>>> By what measure, disk space used by the build dir?
>>
>> No, because that would make sense I mean the resulting binaries.
>
> In my case a non-bootstrap build is 81M, and a bootstrap build is 324M.
objdump is your friend. Have a look at section sizes.
Andrew.