Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2001 03:48:34 +0200 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: gcc-3.0.2 and 2.4.14-pre1 |
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:04:32AM +0200, J . A . Magallon wrote: > Hi. > > Results of building with 3.0.2 > - It works > - Kernel Sizes: > 903449 Oct 26 00:38 vmlinuz-2.4.14-pre1-beo (2.96) > 864599 Oct 26 00:25 vmlinuz-2.4.14-pre1-beo.old (3.0.2)
Aren't these figures swapped in some way? I find it hard to believe that 2.96 would produce the 40k bigger kernel.
> - Modules Sizes: > 2750 /lib/modules/2.4.14-pre1-beo > 2758 /lib/modules/2.4.14-pre1-beo.org > werewolf:/lib/modules# modprobe -l | wc -l > 71 > > So it looks like the code is not bigger (modules) but some data structure > in main kernel...
Quite likely due to the 16 bytes alignment that takes place (AFAIK).
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