Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 00:24:08 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loader Message-ID: <199904062224.AAA21754@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904052145410.29316-100000@picnic.mat.net> from Chuck Robey at "Apr 5, 99 09:50:26 pm"
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Chuck Robey wrote: > I just finished a buildworld, and I'm not sure about the laoder binary. > In my obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader directory, I have 3 files that > might be loader: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 135168 Apr 5 19:01 loader > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 121672 Apr 5 19:01 loader.bin* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 259171 Apr 5 19:01 loader.sym* > > None of them are the size of my existing (gcc) /boot/loader: > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 126976 Apr 4 17:10 loader* > > I use CFLAGS of -O -pipe. Can anyone tell me which of the above files > gets installed as /boot/loader, and if (from the filesize) I have a good > loader or not? This is the last thing worrying me about giong to egcs, > and I'm just playing it very cautiously. The file "loader" gets installed. (The .bin file is created from the .sym file and fed into btxld(8), which outputs loader after binding in the BTX bits.) The 135168-byte loader works fine here, and I can't think of any reason it should cause problems for you. (It's to be expected that a more recent compiler will emit different object code, so size comparisons are apples and oranges.) -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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