The following patch strips all instances of the gcc2_compiled. symbol, and appears to shave about 7KB off of the size of a bzImage: Cheers, Bill --- linux-2.4.15-pre5-virgin/arch/i386/Makefile Thu Apr 12 12:20:31 2001 +++ linux-2.4.15-pre5-bootmem/arch/i386/Makefile Sat Nov 17 16:55:03 2001 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ # LD=$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld -m elf_i386 -OBJCOPY=$(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S +OBJCOPY=$(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -N gcc2_compiled. -S LDFLAGS=-e stext LINKFLAGS =-T $(TOPDIR)/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds $(LDFLAGS) -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
