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Re: Increased binary size in RedHat 7 using gcc
- To: Pawan Singh <psingh at turnstone dot com>
- Subject: Re: Increased binary size in RedHat 7 using gcc
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:58:00 +0000
- Cc: "'gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- References: <33DF29A0C402D411B70500508B104731012FEBD9@mail2.turnstone.com>
Pawan Singh wrote:-
> We are recently trying to move from RedHat 6.0 to RedHat 7.0. We are using
> the following compiler:
>
> gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
>
> What we are finding is that almost every executable file is bigger on RedHat
> 7.0 than on RedHat 6.0 using the exact same gcc compiler for exact same code
> using the same Makefile.
Sounds like it could be Glibc defining the world + dog to be a macro.
Neil.