Binutils causes abnormally large, non-working binaries since 2.43

[Bastiaan Timmer]

(apologies for the noise, I believe I did not properly reply to the 
mailing list earlier, so just correcting that)

I just realized: it is of course possible that just downgrading binutils 
is not enough.

For example in my case, I noticed the size increase in a program I was 
linking against openssl. Just downgrading binutils would not fix this, 
unless I also recompiled openssl _after_ that downgrade. So, I of course 
don't know anything about that JVM, but maybe it is possible its size 
increase is due to one of its dependencies having bloated in size, and 
that needs to be rebuilt with the old binutils version first.

kind regards,
Bas

On 17-02-2025 11:58, Julian Waters wrote:
> 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
>