Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:16:25 -0400 |
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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? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |