GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

[Robert Dewar]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> ATM, I am experiencing objects being generated by GCC to increase in
> size and forcing us to gradually abandon targets with tight memory
> requirements. At least one cause of this seems to be GCC abandoning COFF
> in favor of ELF, which seems to imply larger memory requirements.

I don't see at all why this should increase target memory requirements,
can you eludicate?