Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: gcl-2.5.0

[Matt Kaufmann]

Hi --

For what it's worth, I tried stripping the solaris acl2 executable (built on
gcl) and that only reduced the size from 28309690 to 27186172.  (The resulting
image still seemed to work OK, including compilation.)  But maybe all this
proves is that I don't understand strip all that well.

Thanks --
-- Matt
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   From: "Mike Thomas" <address@hidden>
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   Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:30:34 +1000
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   Hi there.

   > > -rwxrwxr-x    1 kaufmann acl2     18818816 Nov  7 04:06 gcl-osaved_acl2
   > > -rwxrwxr-x    1 kaufmann acl2     28360331 Nov 11 22:54 gcl-saved_acl2

   In the context of g++ I saw an email recently that claimed that under gcc
   version 2.9.x binary stripping (-s flag) is on by default, whereas under 3.x
   it is off.

   I stripped the saved_gcl executable and got the following relative file
   sizes:

   Unstripped:
   -rwxr-xr-x    1 miketh   Administ  3428176 Nov 15 14:19
   unixport/saved_gcl.exe

   Stripped:
   -rwxr-xr-x    1 miketh   Administ  1447936 Nov 15 14:16
   unixport/saved_gcl.exe

   The stripped executable crashes presumably because the Win32 rsym linking is
   messed up by a post-save strip, however on first glance, this may be the
   reason for the file size increase - you'll have to test on your own system
   and try turning -s on and off etc.

   Cheers

   Mike Thomas.