Huge binaries?

[Benjamin Kosnik]

(just read the thread on the web, it's way easier than trying to sort  a
mail box.)

depends on your idea of simple, but here is a staring point:
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/libstdc++/1999-q4/msg00182.html

Really, if this were fixed, c++ and java would both benefit enormously
(and stuff like gtk--, but that's a side bonus.) I think Brendan was
seeing reductions of 30-50% when he looked at this awhile back.

In a perefect world, autoconf/automake would automagically add these flags
to CXXFLAGS if it detected a gnu ld/as/cc1plus that could act correctly,
so that then everybody would transparently benefit. 


-benjamin