Hi Andi. On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:12:01PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] net-2.6]$ l /tmp/sys_ia32.o.before /tmp/sys_ia32.o.after > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 acme acme 185240 2008-02-06 19:19 /tmp/sys_ia32.o.after > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 acme acme 248328 2008-02-06 19:00 /tmp/sys_ia32.o.before > > > > Almost 64KB only on this object file! > > Just FYI, newer gcc does this in theory automatically when you specify > > -feliminate-unused-debug-types -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols google did not turn up anything useful. Do you have a poiter to where these are described?
> There is also -feliminate-dwarf2-dups, but it seems to even increase > obj dir size. Also -feliminate-dwarf2-dups seems to generate a lot of Google only turned up a patch from Mark Mitchell removing this in ~2001 timeframe. So again a pointer would be nice. I use FC8: gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33) So this is far behind trunk that you use - but I have not had any real incentive to upgrade. I would like to have a remote understanding of the options before enabling them. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/