Code Bloat g++

[Sudish Joseph]

Gerald Pfeifer writes:
> It might be that GNU as is faster, but the size of .s files with debugging
> information on sparc-sun-solaris2.6 alone is prohibitive.

In my experience, GNU as is faster than Sun's as, especially with -g.
Sun's as (at least under x86) would also bloat up and use gobs of
memory for template-heavy code like ACE.  Sun's as also seemed to have
more arbitrary restrictions for stuff like symbol name length.

I now generally configure gcc --with-gnu-as --without-gnu-ld under
Solaris.

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Sudish Joseph