Huge Increase in Unstripped Executable Size G++ 2.95 to 3.2

[Jim Wilson]

nabeel@netzero.com wrote:
> Switching from G++ 2.95.3 to 3.2, increased the unstripped debug build
> size from 14.0MB to 25.6MB. The stripped size is almost exactly the
> same at 5.7MB.

To add to what Daniel said, in stabs, we have support for eliminating 
duplicate debug info for header files.  That is, if a header file is 
included in multiple files, we can eliminate all but one copy of its 
debug info.  Unfortunately, the same support for our DWARF2 debug info 
is still a work in progress.  Thus, while DWARF2 debug info is designed 
to be more compact than stabs, our current implementation is not because 
we are missing an optimization present in our stabs support.  This will 
eventually be fixed.

Jim