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From: "Joshua Nye" <josh@boxcarmedia.com>
To: "Michiel Buddingh'" <ajuin+mail@stack.nl>, <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Giant executables.. what am I doing wrong?
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004d01c273e2$af2f48f0$0100a8c0@windows9q3yn19> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021015002144.GA35401@stack.nl>

Sounds like you might need a smaller C library then. Check out newlib or
some other library and see if that fits your problem. I'm not that familiar
with shrinking the C library. =)

http://sources.redhat.com/newlib/

--josh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michiel Buddingh'" <ajuin+mail@stack.nl>
To: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: Giant executables.. what am I doing wrong?


> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:08:06PM -0400, Joshua Nye wrote:
> > Are you sure you want to create a static executable?
>
> Yes. :)
>
> > If you are trying to
> > save memory, shared executables are probably better.
>
> True. But the system I'm programming for is going to be severely
> limited in memory. Limited to 4 MB of RAM, to be exact. It is not
> going to have virtual memory, and disk space will be less than 1 MB.
>   Furthermore, I expect it's perfectly feasible to implement the
> program I'm writing using system calls only. Given that, it doesn't
> make sense to build it as a shared executable.
>
> --
> -- Michiel
>


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-15  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-14 16:49 Michiel Buddingh'
2002-10-14 17:08 ` Joshua Nye
2002-10-14 17:21   ` Michiel Buddingh'
2002-10-14 17:35     ` Joshua Nye [this message]
2002-10-14 18:50       ` Michiel Buddingh'
2002-10-15  2:38         ` Claudio Bley
2002-10-15  5:15           ` Michiel Buddingh'
2002-10-15  5:12         ` Joshua Nye
2002-10-15  5:19           ` Joshua Nye
2002-10-15  5:20           ` Michiel Buddingh'
2002-10-15  3:53 ` Steve Dondley
2002-10-15  4:15   ` Claudio Bley
2002-10-15  5:09   ` Michiel Buddingh'
2002-10-14 19:00 Dockeen
2002-10-15  5:31 Ruppert

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