Dan Mick wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Peter Memishian wrote:
> >>  > > Actual data (from Kit Chow's recent tests): building with -xstrconst 
> >> saves
> >>  > > 389K of text on a DEBUG kernel.  Certainly not "~~10.1MB", but 
> >> non-trivial.
> >>  >
> >>  > Is that just "genunix" or the whole kernel with all modules ?
> >>
> >> Just genunix and unix, I believe.
> >
> > How much is saved when the whole kernerl with all modules gets compiled
> > with "-xstrconst" ?
> 
> There isn't any kernel compilation step that "compiles" kernel modules against
> the kernel.  The closest we have is global lint and ctf manipulation.
[snip]

Erm... lets rephrase my question: What's the amount of disk space saved
in $ROOT if we recompile the usr/src/uts/ subdir with "-xstrconst"
enabled for all code in this subdir (uhm... I can't test that myself...
my machine would need around two or three days to compile such a test
run... ;-( ) ?

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Bye,
Roland

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