On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:26:51PM -0800, Geoffrey Espin wrote: > > 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? Yes. If you use -static, the binary will be bigger. If you want smaller binaries, you should check out my sglibc. H.J.
