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Re: gcc with binutils-2.11.2 on solaris
- From: Manfred Hollstein <manfred dot h at gmx dot net>
- To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann at godzilla dot ICS dot UCI dot EDU>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:19:57 +0200
- Subject: Re: gcc with binutils-2.11.2 on solaris
- References: <200204180207.aa09108@gremlin-relay.ics.uci.edu>
Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> On sparc-sun-solaris2.7 the size of unstripped binaries produced by
> gcc-3.0.4 configured to use binutils-2.11.2 is much smaller than the
> ones produced by the same compiler configured to use Sun's as and ld.
Did you try binutils-2.12, too? I don't know if that affects Solaris,
but on Linux using -2.12 vs. standard binutils-2.11.90.0.8 on RHL 7.2
made executables smaller by appr. 10-15%
Cheers.
l8er
manfred