On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 05:37:14PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> The following patch strips all instances of the gcc2_compiled. symbol, >> and appears to shave about 7KB off of the size of a bzImage: On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:52:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > I'm pretty sure this doesn't effect the runtime size of the kernel. See > the kbuild list archives for why Keith Owens doesn't want to add this > kind of change. > > thanks, > > greg k-h Perhaps this reduces the on-disk image, but there are better ways of doing it appearing also in that thread, and apparently the fact this doesn't appear in-core makes it of questionable value. It's something I'll remember when trying to squeeze things onto floppies, but otherwise, chuck it. Cheers, Bill -- 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/
