Adventures with gcc: code vs object-code size

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 2:52 PM -0800 3/21/04, Kip Macy wrote:
>The heuristics vary from platform to platform - what does
>"objdump -d" show?

Based on what I see from that, the 'ps.o' which has the extra
strcmp is about 40 bytes larger than the one without it.  And
now that you mention it, doing a plain 'ls -l' of ps.o shows
that it is only 40 bytes larger.  It's when you combine that
file with the other *.o files, and strip it, that the final
result ends up 3940 bytes larger.

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...

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