From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from re-prd-fep-041.btinternet.com (mailomta25-re.btinternet.com [213.120.69.118]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 059063858D32 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2023 16:46:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from re-prd-rgout-003.btmx-prd.synchronoss.net ([10.2.54.6]) by re-prd-fep-041.btinternet.com with ESMTP id <20230102164614.PBGV7464.re-prd-fep-041.btinternet.com@re-prd-rgout-003.btmx-prd.synchronoss.net>; Mon, 2 Jan 2023 16:46:14 +0000 Authentication-Results: btinternet.com; auth=pass (PLAIN) smtp.auth=jonturney@btinternet.com; bimi=skipped X-SNCR-Rigid: 61A69BAC3DE37CD3 X-Originating-IP: [81.153.98.246] X-OWM-Source-IP: 81.153.98.246 (GB) X-OWM-Env-Sender: jonturney@btinternet.com X-VadeSecure-score: verdict=clean score=0/300, class=clean X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvhedrjedvgdelgecutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemuceutffkvffkuffjvffgnffgvefqofdpqfgfvfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecufedtudenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmnecujfgurhepkfffgggfuffvfhfhjggtgfesthekredttdefjeenucfhrhhomheplfhonhcuvfhurhhnvgihuceojhhonhdrthhurhhnvgihsegurhhonhgvtghouggvrdhorhhgrdhukheqnecuggftrfgrthhtvghrnhepkeeukeeuuedukefhfeeufedtjeejfeejhfdtffdttdevvdelheegvdfftdegiedtnecuffhomhgrihhnpegthihgfihinhdrtghomhenucfkphepkedurdduheefrdelkedrvdegieenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhephhgvlhhopegludelvddrudeikedruddruddtiegnpdhinhgvthepkedurdduheefrdelkedrvdegiedpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehjohhnrdhtuhhrnhgvhiesughrohhnvggtohguvgdrohhrghdruhhkpdhnsggprhgtphhtthhopedvpdhrtghpthhtohepuehrihgrnhdrkfhnghhlihhssefuhihsthgvmhgrthhitgfuhgdrrggsrdgtrgdprhgtphhtthhopegthihgfihinhestgihghifihhnrdgtohhm X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean Received: from [192.168.1.106] (81.153.98.246) by re-prd-rgout-003.btmx-prd.synchronoss.net (5.8.716.04) (authenticated as jonturney@btinternet.com) id 61A69BAC3DE37CD3; Mon, 2 Jan 2023 16:46:14 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 16:46:14 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.1 Subject: Size reduction of Cygwin DLL (was Re: Cygwin 3.4.3-1 update cygheap read copy failed Win32 error 299) To: Brian Inglis , The Cygwin Mailing List References: <1819e9ed-28c8-52cb-a07e-5e76c0215db9@Shaw.ca> Content-Language: en-GB From: Jon Turney In-Reply-To: <1819e9ed-28c8-52cb-a07e-5e76c0215db9@Shaw.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3570.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_SPF_HELO,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_NONE,TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On 17/12/2022 23:15, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > Just upgraded all packages including Cygwin last night and get occasional: [...] > > Noticed current release is much smaller than previous and my local DLL: > > $ TZ=UTC ls -glort /bin/cygwin1*.dll > -rwxr-xr-x 1 3588124 Sep  5 11:17 /bin/cygwin1-prev.dll > -rwxr-xr-x 1 3561202 Dec 16 07:33 /bin/cygwin1-test.dll > -rwxr-xr-x 1 3561202 Dec 16 07:33 /bin/cygwin1.dll > -rwxr-xr-x 1 2951221 Dec 16 12:50 /bin/cygwin1-save.dll > -rwxr-xr-x 1 2951221 Dec 16 12:50 /bin/cygwin1-curr.dll > $ for tar in ~/mirror/x86_64/release/cygwin/cygwin-3.4.?-1.tar.xz; do > echo -n "${tar##*/}: "; tar -tvf $tar usr/bin/cygwin1.dll | cut -d' ' > -f3- ; done > cygwin-3.4.0-1.tar.xz: 3563651 2022-12-04 06:09 usr/bin/cygwin1.dll > cygwin-3.4.1-1.tar.xz: 3563526 2022-12-10 13:12 usr/bin/cygwin1.dll > cygwin-3.4.2-1.tar.xz: 3564074 2022-12-11 05:06 usr/bin/cygwin1.dll > cygwin-3.4.3-1.tar.xz: 2951221 2022-12-16 05:50 usr/bin/cygwin1.dll This is probably not related to any problems you are seeing. In 3.4.3 we made a change so that cygwin DLL is stripped by the standard mechanisms in cygport (previously it managed it's own stripping) [1]. It seems that cygport does a more thorough job of this (in particular it removes the (I think useless) COFF symbol table). [1] https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=99bb3e937a0fdbc1e3acbdc7cefb31e54a89a6ac