From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jul 3 8:21:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB76437B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp01.web.de [194.45.170.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A2243E31 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Lentfer@web.de) Received: from [217.225.206.134] (helo=floundjan.homeip.net) by smtp.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.70 #5) id 17PlwI-0004kb-00; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 17:21:06 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by floundjan.homeip.net (Postfix on FreeBSD 4.5) with ESMTP id BDD411CF; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:21:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from web.de (jan-winnb.lan [192.168.0.26]) by floundjan.homeip.net (Postfix on FreeBSD 4.5) with ESMTP id 9FB38126; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:21:02 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3D23160F.4070909@web.de> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 17:19:43 +0200 From: Jan Lentfer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of Alpha binaries References: <3D231418.1020406@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav schrieb: >Jan Lentfer writes: > > >>this may be a dumb question, but why are Alpha-binaries so much bigger >>than x86-bins? I compared some files in /bin and found that the >>Alpha-binaries are at least 30% bigger, sometimes even twice as big. >>Is there any (understandable) technical explanation? >> >> > >Alpha is a 64-bit platform, i386 is a 32-bit platform. > > Thanks :-), I knew that, but how does this cause bigger binaries? Sorry, but this really isn't obvious for me, I am not very deep into stuff like this. Thanks, Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message