Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:43:48 +0200 | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: kernel size |
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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) }
/* Stabs debugging sections. */
which puts it into the list of sections to be discarde on i386.
Regards
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