FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 1 11:47:25 PST 2003


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:03:48PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Anyway, I've committed the fix to release/Makefile that strips
> the .comment section out from the BOOTMFS kernel.  If you have
> time, you can exploit the effect of this by changing sweaping
> over src/sys/ and changing rcsid = "$FreeBSD$" lines to be
> __FBSDID() -- that would put these IDs in the .comment section,
> thus reducing the size of the stripped kernel by a few more
> kilobytes.

Why can't the bits be built with -Dlint to remove rcsid's.


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