Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 17:32:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimise for space -Os Message-ID: <200007050032.RAA06551@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jul 2000 01:50:30 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.20.0007050146320.79847-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
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> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > There was also some work done on making the loader self-uncompressing, > > > > which would cut it almost in half sizewise again; we've been trying to > > > > get this code out of Robert Nordier, but he's been very quiet of late. > > > > > > This code is in the tree, and I use it... :-) `/usr/bin/kzip loader` > > > > kzip is deprecated and not built anymore. The work I referred to used > > btxld to compress, and btxldr to uncompress the payload. > > Wait a sec... Now I remember I received a tarball from Robert once, and > for sure it contained _another_ tool to do it.. What is the kgzldr.o stub > for, then? That's kgzip, which is the new elf-aware replacement for kzip. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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