svn commit: r367304 - in head: share/man/man5 share/mk tools/build/options usr.bin usr.bin/clang usr.bin/clang/llvm-cxxfilt

[Ed Maste]

On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 12:40, Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> I think this guidance originates from the world of embedded systems,
> where storage size is a more limiting factor than on recent desktop or
> server class machines. On my desktops I won't care too much whether an
> executable is 1M or 100MB, but on a small SD card things add up very
> quickly!

Indeed, although even there the lowest-capacity SD card available in
the market keeps growing.

Most of the tool chain is irrelevant for embedded systems and the size
makes little difference, but there are some tool chain components that
may be of interest. We don't expect Clang on a constrained target, but
might want find size, or strings.