Binutils causes abnormally large, non-working binaries since 2.43

[Julian Waters]

Unfortunately even binutils 2.42 still yields a Java Virtual Machine
bloated to extreme sizes. It seems the 2 issues are unrelated.

best regards,
Julian

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM Julian Waters <tanksherman27@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Bastiaan,
>
> I've also been facing this issue as well, but never thought to check
> binutils. jvm.dll exploded in size from an acceptable 20MB to nearly 3
> times of that recently for me, but a notable difference compared to your
> issue is that the linked Java Virtual Machine does work properly, it just
> increased in size by an insane amount. I haven't tried 2.42 yet, I will now
> compile the JVM again and get back to you on the results.
>
> best regards,
> Julian
>
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