On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Julian Elischer <jul...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 6/15/15 1:34 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> On Jun 14, 2015, at 20:53, Julian Elischer <jul...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> On 6/14/15 10:48 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>>> >>>> On 13 June 2015 at 18:22, Craig Rodrigues <rodr...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I guarantee that no matter what you've worked on, there's >>>>>>> approximately five orders of magnitude of shipping devices whose >>>>>>> entire storage space can be measured in 1 digit megabytes. Each year. >>>>>> >>>>>> (And yes - there's an appreciable set of them for which freebsd boots, >>>>>> runs and keeps running on them.0 >>>>>> >>>>>> You can buy em too, some of them even under $60. >>>>> >>>>> Can FreeBSD now not run on these systems because of libxo? >>>> >>>> It's a tight squeeze as it is. Running in 8MB of flash (even if it's >>>> compressed) is still an exercise in "what can you cut out." >>>> >>>> My point isn't that it isn't running because of libxo; my point is >>>> that arguing about "embedded" involving "lots of storage" is woefully >>>> incorrect and will continue to be until those gigabytes of storage are >>>> available for a penny. Which yes, I'm guessing will happen in my >>>> career - but it's also quite likely code bloat will continue to chase >>>> that upward. >>> >>> do we have a WITHOUT_LIBXO option on sources? I believe we should.. >> >> +1. I would be more than happy to implement it by stubbing out the >> majority of the macros to something less invasive, but it might be a bit >> before I do that. >> Thanks, > > but that wouldn't remove the bloat within the apps.. just make it use null > calls.
That was the idea. Make it like "libnxo" or something, a dummy library like libnetbsd with weak symbols that can be optimized away by the compiler... _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
