Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:52:50 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: kernel size |
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:16:48AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > Compiled, produces this: > > > > .file "xxx.c" > > .version "01.01" > > gcc2_compiled.: > > .comm foo,4,4 > > .ident "GCC: (GNU) egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)" > > > > It __might__ be possible to link, without linking in ".ident", which > > currently shares space with .rodata. My gcc man pages are not any > > better than the usual Red Hat so I can't find out if there is any way > > to turn OFF these spurious strings. > > strip -R .ident -R .comment -R .note > > is your friend. > > Or if we would like to solve it more elegant: > > --- linux-2.4.10/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds Tue Oct 9 16:36:06 2001 > +++ linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds Tue Oct 9 16:36:28 2001 > @@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ > *(.text.exit) > *(.data.exit) > *(.exitcall.exit) > + *(.ident) > + *(.comment) > + *(.note) > } >
Yes! Wonderful... -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1571516 Oct 9 10:50 vmlinux -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1590692 Oct 1 13:26 vmlinux.OLD
That got rid of some cruft.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
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