Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:22:58 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood Message-ID: <20030401202258.GA10571@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030401135652.A53787@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030329190908R.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <3E857E9C.F7476A32@mindspring.com> <20030329203005.GB94956@sunbay.com> <20030331150348.GD21700@sunbay.com> <20030401194712.GA10151@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030401135652.A53787@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:56:52PM -0600, Juli Mallett wrote: > * De: David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> [ Data: 2003-04-01 ] > [ Subjecte: Re: FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood ] > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:03:48PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > Anyway, I've committed the fix to release/Makefile that strips > > > the .comment section out from the BOOTMFS kernel. If you have > > > time, you can exploit the effect of this by changing sweaping > > > over src/sys/ and changing rcsid = "$FreeBSD$" lines to be > > > __FBSDID() -- that would put these IDs in the .comment section, > > > thus reducing the size of the stripped kernel by a few more > > > kilobytes. > > > > Why can't the bits be built with -Dlint to remove rcsid's. > > Because that would change other things, wouldn't it. Like maybe > structure sizes or macros which need to actually work? I didn't see any issues like that with a very curiory look at the sources. Are you willing to take a look also?
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