On Wednesday 20 March 2002 15:40, Simon Blake wrote: > I have a vague memory of somebody explaining to me that that the > reason that 2.2.x is so much bigger is because it has a bunch of > backwards compatibility stuff in it to allow binaries linked against > 2.0.x to continue to work. So if one was to go through and rebuild > all the binaries in bering against 2.2, then the 2.2 could be cut > down to a size not too much bigger than the current 2.0 libc. But I > could be on crack.
I investigated libc 2.2 when it first came out and all pointers to the bloat was support for both 32-bit and 64-bit processors. If you could drop the 64-bit support out of the source you would likely reduce a huge amount of compiled code (this may be a config option). I could be on crack myself though, this information was skimmed from a similar discussion on a libc newsgroup post. -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
