how small can gcc get?

Mike Stump mrs@apple.com
Sun Apr 24 15:58:00 GMT 2005


On Saturday, April 23, 2005, at 05:05  PM, Philip George wrote:
> What's the smallest size I can squeeze gcc down to and how would I go 
> about compiling it in such a way?

My take:

#define optimize 0

and then rebuild with dead code stripping.  :-)  You'd be the first to 
do this that I know of, so, won't necessarily be easy, but, might be a 
bit smaller than you'd get otherwise.

Otherwise, around 28MB.



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