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Re: crosstool bloat

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: crossgcc at sourceware dot org
Cc: David Karlton <dkarlton at themediamall dot com>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:55:08 -0400
Subject: Re: crosstool bloat
References: <432DDAF4.2080306@themediamall.com>

On Sunday 18 September 2005 05:24 pm, David Karlton wrote:
> Any idea what may be causing the executables to be so large?  I can't
> recall what I had done in the installation for 0.28 to make the binaries
> be "normal".  Is there an easy way to figure out what is getting
> included into my builds?

check the version of binutils ... iirc, later versions forced a lot of zero 
space into the binaries

you should also post some example output of `readelf` on these fat binaries so 
we can see which sections are being bloated
-mike

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