From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jul 3 8:24:28 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 39D6337B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:24:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CB343E09 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:24:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 29E59534A; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:24:24 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Jan Lentfer Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of Alpha binaries References: <3D231418.1020406@web.de> <3D23160F.4070909@web.de> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 03 Jul 2002 17:24:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3D23160F.4070909@web.de> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Jan Lentfer writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav schrieb: > > Alpha is a 64-bit platform, i386 is a 32-bit platform. > Thanks :-), I knew that, but how does this cause bigger binaries? Think about it: all pointers are twice as large; some integer types are larger; structures and static data have more padding; instructions that involve pointers or integer literals (e.g. function calls) are larger... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message