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Re: Huge Increase in Unstripped Executable Size G++ 2.95 to 3.2
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: ak at suse dot de, schwab at suse dot de
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, nabeel at netzero dot com, wilson at tuliptree dot org
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:09:38 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Huge Increase in Unstripped Executable Size G++ 2.95 to 3.2
> I think I did. But I believe it is incorrect: the reason
> is that just the object files are much bigger too than with
> stabs, and these cannot be explained by "duplicated includes"
We certainly see that Dwarf generates more debugging information than stabs
under virtually all conditions, and sometimes the difference is huge.