From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id fAELQw905007 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:26:58 -0800 Received: from idiom.com (espin@idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAELQs005002 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:26:54 -0800 Received: (from espin@localhost) by idiom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA97996; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:26:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:26:51 -0800 From: Geoffrey Espin To: linux-mips-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-mips Subject: Re: compiler problem Message-ID: <20011114132651.A85263@idiom.com> References: <1005591216.470.20.camel@zeus> <20011114134718.E16741@dea.linux-mips.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <20011114134718.E16741@dea.linux-mips.net>; from Ralf Baechle on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:47:18PM +1100 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk I discovered that HJ Lu's toolchain seems to generate binaries sometimes nearly twice what I used to get with the old VR toolchain. Here are some of my apps (-static -stripped): OLD 'VR' tools -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 302384 Oct 4 2001 chat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 443848 Oct 4 2001 iptables -r-sr-x--- 1 root root 619620 Oct 4 2001 pppd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 445788 Oct 4 2001 thttpd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 335560 Oct 4 2001 udhcpd NEW gcc version 2.96 20000731 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root espin 543876 Nov 13 16:13 chat -rwxr-xr-x 1 espin espin 740092 Nov 13 16:13 iptables -r-sr-x--- 1 root pppusers 907256 Nov 13 16:13 pppd -rwxr-xr-x 1 espin espin 703880 Nov 13 16:13 thttpd -rwxr-xr-x 1 espin espin 599200 Nov 13 16:13 udhcpd I guess this is most likely a glibc issue? Geoff -- Geoffrey Espin espin@idiom.com