Increased binary size in RedHat 7 using gcc

[Neil Booth]

Pawan Singh wrote:-

> We are recently trying to move from RedHat 6.0 to RedHat 7.0. We are using
> the following compiler:
> 
> gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> 
> What we are finding is that almost every executable file is bigger on RedHat
> 7.0 than on RedHat 6.0 using the exact same gcc compiler for exact same code
> using the same Makefile.

Sounds like it could be Glibc defining the world + dog to be a macro.

Neil.