Re: [Freemint-discuss] [MiNT] binutils-2.23.2 and gcc-4.6.4

[Miro K. <mir...@gm...>]

On 14 October 2013 at 11:47, Miro Kropáček <mir...@gm...> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Eero Tamminen <oa...@he...> wrote:
>
>> > Globally, stripping saved many megabytes.
>>
>> I'm not interested in the ".L*" symbols as those have
>> no names, just numbers.  But anything that has a name for
>> a function, I would very much like to be retained in
>> the library symbol table.
>>
>> Maybe you could use the following strip arguments:
>>         -S -X -w -N '.L[0-9]*'
>> ?
>
>
> Inspired by an Atari-forum thread, I have done proper testing this time.
> Results are more than surprising. My tests were done on the complete
> gcc+binutils+mintlib+pml cross compilation installation (self made):
>
> Plain install (no stripping at all): 148 MB
> My strip ("-s" for executables, "-S -x" for libraries): 63 MB
> Eero's proposal ("-s" for executables, "-S -X -w -N '.L[0-9]*'" for
> libraries): *58 MB*
>
> Yes, with static functions like "tzload" included and still working
> (simple hello world tested). So it seems that actually Eero's "script" not
> only keeps static function names but also saves space =)
>

It took only four years and Eero's comment on AF but I have finally changed
this. So now all mintlib/gemlib/cflib/gemma builds contain static symbols,
using the command line switches above.

Vincent, if you find some time, I suggest to change the switches in your
builds as well.

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