crosstool bloat

[David Karlton]

Peter Barada wrote:
>>Being as far from a guru at this stuff as humanly possible, the best I 
>>could figure out was that the bloated programs have an additional 
>>section header named ".MIPS.stubs".  I'm not sure how else to use 
>>objdump effectively.  Forgive my inexperience with compilers and such... 
>> Is there another arg I should try to compare?
> 
> 
> Start with 'objdump -h' to dump the section headers.  From there you
> cans ee the size of each section(and whether there are any new and/or
> unexpected ones).
> 

That's exactly what I did, and the bloated one had an additional section:

Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
10 .MIPS.stubs   000000a0  00400e50  00400e50  00000e50  2**2

but I don't know what this really means.

dk


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