From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: John Carr <jfc@mit.edu>
To: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
Cc: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: increase in object code size 
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:03:00 -0000
Message-id: <199709231703.NAA17808@no-knife.MIT.EDU>
References: <199709231631.JAA10526@atrus.synopsys.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997-09/msg00875.html

> You might check to see whether -fno-exceptions has an effect.

On 80386, -fno-exceptions reduces size by about 25%.  "size -f" on
SVR4 and similar systems will show the size by section; you should see
an exception section (.eh_frame) about 30% as large as the code
section.  This is present even in C code which doesn't use exceptions.