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Re: SIZE
- To: "J.Miguel Iban~ez" <jmiguel at iaa dot es>
- Subject: Re: SIZE
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 23:32:28 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
> I've recently changed from gcc2 to egcs (1.0.2), but the first and biggest
> difference I've found is that executable size created by egcs is more
> ( and more ) bigger than executable size created by gcc2. Why ??
> I'd like to know which is the reason or/and where can I find more
> information about this.
Use objdump -h to determine what sections are larger than before, or
to find new sections.
Some increase is expected due to the overhead for exception handling.
For C it should be relatively small. It can be more significant for
C++.
jeff