From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:57:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:57:48 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:28945 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:57:29 -0500 Message-ID: <3C772EF4.DB49876F@zip.com.au> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:56:04 -0800 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-rc2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hugang CC: Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: gcc-2.95.3 vs gcc-3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <3C771D29.942A07C2@starband.net>, <3C771D29.942A07C2@starband.net> <20020223134053.4fbe25ed.gang_hu@soul.com.cn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hugang wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:40:09 -0500 > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > ... > > GCC 2.95.3 > ... > > System is 899 kB > ... > > GCC 3.0.4 > ... > > System is 962 kB > ... > > > Why the system size is different. Possble your use differ config. Later versions of gcc produce larger executables, due to more aggressive alignment of code and data. Most of this can be turned off, but the kernel build system isn't doing that. -