On 15.03.2013 14:39, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 15.03.2013 17:24, Andreas Oberritter wrote: >> On 15.03.2013 11:28, Michael Tokarev wrote: >>> 15.03.2013 02:30, Andreas Oberritter wrote: >>>> This reduces the (stripped) binary size from 1.6M to 572K >>>> on my system. >>> >>> But it creates an additional file, the shared library, which >>> also occupes space. >>> >>> What's the reason for that? Instead of just one executable >>> we now have executable plus a library, which together is >>> larger than single executable. >> >> The numbers I mentioned are the total size of all created binaries (i.e. >> excluding configuration und documentation, but including all modules and >> the automount executable, and of course including the shared library). >> >> So why does this save space? Because the static library was linked into >> every module and into the automount executable. > > Aha. So that's the library linked into every module. That explains > things. > > But now I've another question. Maybe it is better to link whole that > lib into the main executable, instead of linking it to every module? I hope you don't mind me forwarding your response to the list. This may work (using -Wl,--whole-archive), but I think this would require some more testing. A first compile-test shows that this would save further 36K on my system, compared to the shared library. Regards, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
