I discovered that HJ Lu's toolchain seems to generate binaries
sometimes nearly twice what I used to get with the old VR toolchain.
Here are some of my apps (-static -stripped):
OLD 'VR' tools
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 302384 Oct 4 2001 chat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 443848 Oct 4 2001 iptables
-r-sr-x--- 1 root root 619620 Oct 4 2001 pppd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 445788 Oct 4 2001 thttpd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 335560 Oct 4 2001 udhcpd
NEW gcc version 2.96 20000731
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root espin 543876 Nov 13 16:13 chat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 espin espin 740092 Nov 13 16:13 iptables
-r-sr-x--- 1 root pppusers 907256 Nov 13 16:13 pppd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 espin espin 703880 Nov 13 16:13 thttpd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 espin espin 599200 Nov 13 16:13 udhcpd
I guess this is most likely a glibc issue?
Geoff
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Geoffrey Espin
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