Thanks Michael! Sorry for any confusions. What I concern is not memory footprint, but the physical size of the binary. Yes, I am developing embedded applications. I am wondering some general ideas of how to make the footprint smaller for physical files? Any ideas or comments?
regards, George ----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Eager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lin George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:21:47 AM Subject: Re: to reduce footprint Lin George wrote: > Thanks Michael! I am interested why using printf will make footprint/malloc > will make footprint larger? I think they are just some functions from other > shared libraries, which will only have a link/address in the module which > invokes them -- they are not inline functions. Why using printf and malloc > will make footprint larger? I'm not sure why you sent this to the make help list. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] You've never said what your target is or how you are building your application. It's hard to guess what you are doing. Most folks concerned about memory footprint are working on embedded systems with statically linked applications. Most folks who have systems which have shared libraries don't have large concerns about memory footprint. -- Michael Eager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
