How to understand gcc source code?

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

Andrew Pinski wrote:
> Here are some answers from a PS3 prosective.
> 
> 
> The mean code size is around 200 million lines or so.  The final
> binary results anywhere between 20 Megs to 40 Megs.

Are you sure of that figure? 200MLOC for a single program? That is huge! 
  Even for all the software installed on a PS3 it might be a lot (I read 
that an entire Debian distribution was less than a 1000GLOC at least a 
few years ago, and I would suppose that the PS3 has much less).
http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/ says that Debian3.1 was 230MLOC!

And I have the naive feeling that on game machines, the non-code data 
(in particular images, movies, videos, sounds) was bigger than the code 
(executable instructions).

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