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From: gt@test (Gerd Truschinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: gdb size
Message-ID: <3874@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Date: 14 Aug 93 11:17:47 GMT
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glass@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Glass) writes:


>  (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>   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.

>Is there a plan to cut up the distribution in the near future?  I'm
>sure there are features that I'd be happy to do without....

It seems to be the time to extract the BFD from the [GBD,gas,binutil]
distribution. To cut the size of the object file down, include only
the used target, i.e. 386bsd and m68k :-)

/gT/

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