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Re: Significantly smaller binary sizes today
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:28:40 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Significantly smaller binary sizes today
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Brad Roberts wrote:
> Did you ever determine what had changed to produce this 80% reduction?
No, I didn't have the time doing a full binary search (especially given
the instability of the tree during that period).
> The number coincides with the numbers that the denser dwarf2 code showed
> for gdb according to the apr 9 post on that subject but I don't recall
> seeing anything about that beyond the proposal.
Those significant reduction I mentioned was for binaries built with
-O3 and -fno-exceptions (and without -g), so I'm not sure whether/how
DWARF2 might be relevant here.
Gerald
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