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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: When can we expect 0.9 NetBSD?
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
References: <1993Aug6.134914.2425@yvax.byu.edu> <MYCROFT.93Aug12202449@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <deeken.745231878@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> <MYCROFT.93Aug13172130@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1993 02:29:58 GMT
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In article <MYCROFT.93Aug13172130@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>Because GDB 4.9, with BFD, is ridiculously large.  We also have not
>had time to port BFD and test it very well.

kithrup 1% size /usr/bin/gdb ~/src/gdb/gdb/gdb
text	data	bss	dec	hex
315392	49152	76008	440552	6b8e8	/usr/bin/gdb
700416	40960	66236	807612	c52bc	/users/sef/src/gdb/gdb/gdb

That's a 4.10 gdb (just released today).  Part of the reason for the
extra size in the new gdb is the chill parser, which isn't in 3.5, as well
as a whole bunch of other stuff that I could remove if I wanted to.

It won't work with netbsd yet, because when I decided to try to port it,
the netbsd machine I have access to was dead :(.  But maybe sometime this
weekend.