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From: lidl@va.pubnix.com (Kurt J. Lidl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: large executables!
Date: 9 Aug 1996 18:40:13 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies -- Fairfax, Virginia, USA
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Message-ID: <4ugeod$91g@arrow.va.pubnix.com>
References: <4ufg5p$1k2@fnord.dfw.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: arrow.va.pubnix.com
In article <4ufg5p$1k2@fnord.dfw.net>, Mark Blythe <blythe@dfw.dfw.net> wrote:
>I use an ISP who runs on a BSDI system. This is my first experience
>with BSDI, although I've been a UNIX C/C++ programmer for several years.
>After programming on this BSDI system for a few months, I'm quite
>alarmed at the size of the executables I'm generating.
Are you sure you are operating the compilers properly?
lidl@arrow-59: cat > hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
main() { printf ("hello world!\n"); exit(0); }
lidl@arrow-60: shlicc hello.c
lidl@arrow-61: size a.out
text data bss dec hex
212 0 0 212 d4
lidl@arrow-62: ls -l a.out
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lidl wheel 599 Aug 9 18:38 a.out*
lidl@arrow-63: shlicc2 hello.c
lidl@arrow-64: size a.out
text data bss dec hex
372 0 20 392 188
lidl@arrow-65: ls -l a.out
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lidl wheel 988 Aug 9 18:39 a.out*
>Does anyone have any tips on how to generate smaller program files?
>His OS reports itself as "2.1 BSDI BSD/OS 2.1 Kernel #2" through
>uname -a.
Use shlicc or shlicc2. It has a useful man page.
-Kurt
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