Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival | | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:16:25 -0400 | |
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:18:41 CDT, Rob Landley said:
> Worse, if you feed an absolute path to O= when you build the kernel out of
> tree, then it uses absolute paths for all the __FILE__ strings and that makes
> kernel BIIIIIG. (Did that by accident a while back.) Too bad there's no way
> to keep the __FILE__ strings compressed at runtime and gunzip them as needed
> like busybox does with help messages... :)
What about something *really* hardcore ugly like:
#ifdef __FILE__
#undef __FILE__
#define __FILE__ ""
#endif
(or similar preprocessor blecherousness) if you want to *really* shrink
that binary down?
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