On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:34:32PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 07 July 2009 12:30:18 Kumar Gala wrote: > > Here are some size #'s > > > > [ga...@blarg u-boot-85xx]$ size u-boot > > text data bss dec hex filename > > 392040 50536 41957 484533 764b5 u-boot > > 397660 49500 42397 489557 77855 u-boot (new dlmalloc) > > > > [ga...@blarg u-boot-85xx]$ size common/dlmalloc.o > > text data bss dec hex filename > > 4768 1056 56 5880 16f8 common/dlmalloc.o > > 10390 16 492 10898 2a92 common/dlmalloc.o (new > > dlmalloc) > > to say it has increased is an understatement. i cant imagine the upstream > code increasing that much. perhaps we had trimmed/customized the > implementation so as to shrink it ? > > > old dlmalloc: > > [ga...@blarg u-boot-85xx]$ nm --size-sort common/dlmalloc.o > > use the bloatcheck script to do a human readable compare between the two > objects. you can find it in the linux kernel.
And/or, 'pahole' (Poke-a-hole) or some of the other "7 Dwarves" tools might help shed light on the differences. LWN article <http://lwn.net/Articles/335942/> (how I heard about them) GIT <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/acme/pahole.git> OLS '07 paper <http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/acme/7dwarves.pdf> or <http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2007/melo-Reprint.pdf> Tom -- It is of fundamental importance to understand | that the primary recipient of your source code | Email to 'CTZ001' is not the compiler but your coworkers. | at 'email.mot.com' -- KreaTV SW Dev Guidelines | _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
