From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Marat Boshernitsan <maratb@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Executable size increase using egcs 1.0.1 on Solaris 2.6 
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 22:15:00 -0000
Message-id: <19043.889593790@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <tfviupmuk3l.fsf@dogwood.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
X-SW-Source: 1998-03/msg00391.html

  In message < tfviupmuk3l.fsf@dogwood.CS.Berkeley.EDU >you write:
  > 
  > I am seeing a similar problem when compiling our system on RedHat Linux
  > 5.0 and on Solaris 2.5.1.  In my case, the increase is pretty dramatic:
  > 
  > linux:
  > -rwxrwxr-x   1 maratb   ugrad     6933335 Mar  9 16:38 ensemble*
  > 
  > solaris:
  > -rwxrwxr-x   1 maratb   ugrad    18007448 Mar  9 16:31 ensemble*
  > 
  > Stripping the executable produces a somewhat more manageable binaries:
  > 
  > linux:
  > -rwxrwxr-x   1 maratb   ugrad     1723500 Mar 10 16:34 ensemble.strip*
  > 
  > solaris:
  > -rwxrwxr-x   1 maratb   ugrad    2391216 Mar 10 16:34 ensemble.strip*

Linux:
  > .stab        2373816            0
  > .stabstr     2466949            0
  > Total        6634725
About 2/3 of the space for your linux binary is in debug records.

Solaris:
  > .stab.index       24	        0	
  > .stab        3066936	        0	
  > .stab.indexstr      24	        0	
  > .stabstr    12183564	        0	
  > Total       17681768	
More than 2/3 of the space in your solaris executable is debug records.
jeff