Adventures with gcc: code vs object-code size

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Sun Mar 21 16:53:06 PST 2004


At 7:35 PM -0500 3/21/04, Don Bowman wrote:
>From: Garance A Drosihn [mailto:drosih at rpi.edu]
>  >
>>  So maybe this has something to do with how linking is done
>>  for ELF modules.  Unfortunately, I need to be concentrating
>>  on something else right now...
>
>It's not just bumping you up another module 4K pages? The
>linker aligns text, data, bss, rodata, etc.

(65) ls -l /bin/ps*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  27100 Mar 20 14:29 /bin/ps
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  27296 Mar 21 18:21 /bin/ps-sanscmp
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  31204 Mar 21 19:46 /bin/ps-withcmp

The first one is the `ps' before all of my recent changes, the
second is all of the changes except for that strcmp(), and the
third adds the strcmp.

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