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From: claudio@conectiva.com
To: Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net>
Cc: Linux-8086 <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: binary size changes from 0.1.0
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:36:48 -0300 (BRT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0406111128080.486@damien.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1086904319.1095.417.camel@cool>

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Harry Kalogirou wrote:

> > One common trick is to not keep the list of error messages in memory
> > but to keep them in a file on disk. When perror() is called, the file is
> > opened, read until the right error message is found, and that one used...
>
> I think ELKS's libc does that... at least it used to do...

It does that it you use -Mf to use the "small and fast" libc_f. The
default behaviour is to include the strings in every binary. This option
also changes the function call protocol. I made some tests and the
resulting binaries are significantly smaller, similar to those in the
0.1.0 disk images.


      reply	other threads:[~2004-06-11 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-09 18:55 binary size changes from 0.1.0 claudio
2004-06-10  7:35 ` Gábor Lénárt
2004-06-10  9:52   ` David Given
2004-06-10 11:05     ` Gábor Lénárt
2004-06-11  0:52     ` Harry Kalogirou
2004-06-11 14:36       ` claudio [this message]

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