On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:27:02AM +0500, Fawad Lateef wrote:
>
> Have you tried to compile the stock kernel provided with the FC4
> Distribution ?? Is the size remains same ??? Because most of the
> Debugging Symbols are already activated (Y), and the size Sven
> mentioned 7-times bigger I don't think its just due to debugging
> symbols !!! the debugging symbols just adds some printks and some
> debugging code not that much code ... So plzz first try to compile the
> FC4 kernel with the distribution ..... and watch for the size
> difference .....
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO adds -g to the CFLAGS, and therefore a factor of 7 in
the code size is not a big surprise.
> Fawad Lateef
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