Re: massive increase of the size of the library

[Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>]

> From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:40:13 +0200
> 
> * Paul Zimmermann:
> 
> > sure, the files are here:
> >
> > https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/libc-2.28.a
> > https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/libc-2.28.so
> > https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/libc-2.29.a
> > https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/libc-2.29.so
> 
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> 1753624	  20968	  16408	1791000	 1b5418	libc-2.28.so
> 1758304	  20968	  16408	1795680	 1b6660	libc-2.29.so
> 
> So the actual code is of the same size.
> 
> The difference seems to be that the second file contains debugging
> information:
> 
> $ strip libc-2.2?.so
> $ ls -l libc-2.2?.so
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 fweimer fweimer 1791400 Jul 21 10:39 libc-2.28.so
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 fweimer fweimer 1791400 Jul 21 10:39 libc-2.29.so
> 
> So it must be a difference in your build environment.
> 
> Thanks,
> Florian

thanks Florian. Indeed I had to compile 2.28 with CFLAGS="-O2 -Wno-error"
since with -Werror it does not compile with gcc 9.3.0. If I add -g then
I get a similar size than with 2.29 (where CFLAGS="-O2 -g" by default).

Paul