On 03/12/2012 10:09 AM, Christer Solskogen wrote: > Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc <at> gmail.com> > wrote: >>> On 11 March 2012 16:37, Christer Solskogen wrote: >>>> How come a bootstrap build of gcc is almost triple the size as a >>>> non-boostrap build? >>> >>> >>> By what measure, disk space used by the build dir? >> >> No, because that would make sense I mean the resulting binaries. > > In my case a non-bootstrap build is 81M, and a bootstrap build is 324M. objdump is your friend. Have a look at section sizes. Andrew.