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Date:      Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:34:09 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org>
To:        ben@rosengart.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel size over the last week
Message-ID:  <19990413003409.A1968@holly.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9904121431570.9444-100000@echonyc.com>; from Snob Art Genre on Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 02:38:49PM -0400
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9904121431570.9444-100000@echonyc.com>

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On Mon, Apr 12, 1999, Snob Art Genre wrote:
> I just built a kernel, from sources cvsupped last night.  It's over 2
> megs in size, compared to 1.3 megs for a kernel built from the same
> config file four days ago.  Is this due to the change in the debugging
> symbol policy?  file(1) reports both kernels as 'ELF 32-bit LSB
> executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, not
> stripped'.

   Were there any drastic configuration differences?  It seems to
me that egcs binaries are a bit larger as far as file size goes,
but my size change went from about 1.1-1.3 MB to about 1.7 MB.

>  Ben
> 
> "You have your mind on computers, it seems." 

-- 
Chris Costello                                <chris@calldei.com>

It's redundant!  It's redundant!        -R. E. Dundant


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