setup w/char* eliminated is big

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 08:35:57PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>Ok,
> finally got some breathing time.
>
>Setup with char * eliminated is ~350K. Ouch.
>
>This is why I've not committed my patch yet (I've been trying to see
>*where* the extra 100K appeared from).
>
>Chris - is this a problem? IMO it's still a tiny fraction of the total
>distribution size, and we're reducing the number of reasons a setup
>update is *required* as we make /etc/profile and so on into packages.

I dunno.  I think it probably is a problem.  I assume that you're using
more of libstdc++.a which will be a problem for cross compiles.

cgf