Results with glibc-2.2.92

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>
> > 2.2.92 was compiled with GCC 3.2.
> >
> > Is the size expected ?
> >
> > libc.so		11023486
> > libc-2.2.5.so	5000557
>
> Use the size command.  I get for the last 2.2.5 version from Red Hat:
>
> 1227209	  19300	  16832	1263341	 1346ed	/lib/i686/libc.so.6

1136209   23016   16608 1175833  11f119 /lib/libc.so.6

> With the new code in our most recent beta release:
>
> 1130811   17740   17700 1166251  11cbab /lib/i686/libc.so.6

1097503   18300   17668 1133471  114b9f libc.so

> I.e., glibc 2.3 is about 100k smaller.  This is with a
> different compiler and a lot of internal optimization and
> despite of adding more functionality.

OK. BTW, what will happen to 2.2.6 ? A maintenance release ? I
read something on the libc-hackers archives.