dynamic or static linking

[Andrew Stubbs]

On Tue, 29 May 2001 joerg.preuss@jmpreuss-edv.de wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Is there a chance, to build newlib as a dynamic link library? Our arm-board
> has only 256kb ram. Even if a programm we wrote is really small (just an
> inkrement), the linked code is quite big. Sometimes more than 200kb. We had
> the idea, that a dynamic lib could be loaded into flash-rom, which is much
> bigger.

Are you striping the executable?

My hello world program starts out at 315k (for sh4), but when I strip it
the size drops to 48k.

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