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Re: Results with glibc-2.2.92

From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
To: Jeff Chua <jchua at fedex dot com>, Frédéric L. W. Meunier <0 at pervalidus dot net>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:40:38 +0200
Subject: Re: Results with glibc-2.2.92
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208291925180.21112-100000@pervalidus.dyndns.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208300902330.2044-100000@boston.corp.fedex.com> <20020830014335.GA4266@nevyn.them.org>
Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:43:35PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:08:28AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> > 
> > "ls -l" size of libc-2.2.5.so is doubled, even "size" stays about the
> > same. Is that anything that can be done to reduce the "ls" size of the
> > gcc3.2 compiled glibc2.25 libraries?
> 
> Strip them?  DWARF-2 debug information is bigger, that's all.

Well, actually DWARF-2 as debug format can be eventually smaller than stabs,
the problem is GDB DWARF-2 reader which limits DWARF-2(3) optimizations
which could be done by the linker.

	Jakub

References:
- Re: Results with glibc-2.2.92
  - From: Frédéric L. W. Meunier
- Re: Results with glibc-2.2.92
  - From: Jeff Chua
- Re: Results with glibc-2.2.92
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz

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