B Srinivas wrote: > Hi, > > I have compiled a library for 64 bit mips big-endian system . and I > find that the size of this is > > considerably more than the compiled code for i386 32 bit. Is this a > normal behavior ? and what is or could be the reason.? Use file command to check if the library is stripped. Try removing sections like .pdr and .comment (if present) to reduce the size even further. - Sekhar Nori. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/