gcc iussue or ... ?

[Gianmarco Giovannelli]

At 12/04/2003, you wrote:
>In article <5.2.0.9.2.20030412074302.03957e48 at 194.184.65.7> you write:
>
> > Yes you get exactly the same situation of me.
>
>Really, did you report that it was possible to compile globals.o to as
>small a size as linux?  Perhaps you didn't look closely enough:
>
>Created with g++ 3.3 (prerelease) with binutils 2.13.2.1 [on FreeBSD 4.8]:

No,  I mean you are like me when you get the 19M file size on this 
situation only  :-)

 >Created with g++ 3.2.2 built from FreeBSD ports with FreeBSD 4.7
 >system binuilts 2.12.1:
 >
 >; size lonewolf
 >   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 >1358349 17543167        4539088 23440604        165acdc lonewolf
 >; ls -l lonewolf
 >-rwxr-xr-x  1 rittle  wheel  21161728 Apr 11 20:35 lonewolf*


>The only thing I will tell you definitively: the problem is fixed on
>FreeBSD in the forthcoming FSF gcc 3.3 release (it may also require a
>recent enough binutils).  There is little to no chance of this getting
>backported to the FreeBSD system compiler in FreeBSD 4.  Sorry...

It is enough I think :-) If it will be fixed in the upcoming gcc we'll try 
to use it in a near future.
BTW: I am happy to have pointed out the problem ...

Thanks very much for your kind reply and inputs.



Best Regards,
Gianmarco Giovannelli ,  "Unix expert since yesterday"
http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco