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

[Daniel Berlin]

On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 08:06  AM, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:49:13PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
>>
>> |> Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org> writes:
>> |>
>> |> > while DWARF2 debug info is designed
>> |> > to be more compact than stabs,
>> |>
>> |> That's a joke isn't it?
>>
>> You didn't read the whole message, did you?
>
> 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"
STABS was also eliding information on some types/vars that DWARF2 
wasn't, by default.
IIRC, This is fixed on the mainline, so see if object sizes are 
comparable now.
>
> -Andi