egcs-2.90.08 generates _enormous_ executables!
Jason Merrill
jason@cygnus.com
Thu Sep 18 15:17:00 GMT 1997
>>>>> Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> writes:
> Part of the bloat in the data is due to the inclusion of DWARF2 stack
> unwinding information (?), at least that is what I gather the CIE stuff
> that shows up in the assembly to be.
Yep. That's for the new EH code.
> h8 appears to also include debugging information for part of the gcc
> source (?):
That's from the new EH support code in libgcc.a, which is compiled with
-g1. That code also accounts for the growth in text size.
I don't see this as a significant issue.
Jason
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