Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:26:14 +0200 (CEST) | From | "[solid]" <> | Subject | Re: kernel size |
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I might not be right, but I thing gcc 3.x aligns some data differently then previous versions, which sometimes causes executables to be bigger...
[solid] Registered Linux user number 212159
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, VDA wrote:
> Hi folks > > I recompiled my kernel with GCC 3.0.1 (was 2.95.x) > and guess what - it got bigger... > Somehow, I hoped in linux world software gets better > with time, not worse... > > Maybe that's my fault (misconfigured GCC etc) ? > What do you see? > > Being curious, I looked into vmlinux (uncompressed kernel). > I saw swatches of zero bytes in places, large repeateable > patterns etc. You may look there too in your spare time. > > Especially informative are two pages (my console:100x40) > filled with "GCC: (GNU) 3.0.1". Does this gets into > unswappable memory when kernel loads? > -- > Best regards, VDA > mailto:VDA@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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