Re: [Mingw-users] Size of executables

[Lado B. <lbrisar@MailAndNews.com>]

On 19 Sep 2000, at 19:21, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> I wasn't being sarcastic, I was actually trying to find out if it was
> or wasn't.  The next question would be, should it, and if so does
> someone want to supply a patch to gcc/binutils to allow it to? 

IMHO, there's no need to make a patch. 
I can use "-Wl,--file-alignment" option in my makefile. When 
commandline equivalents exists, we don't need additional pragmas. 

The situation is worse when I can't find the commandline equivalents 
for msvc options. For example, I've found that mingw always produces 
larger dll's than msvc. The reason is simple, mingw dll has more 
sections (8 vs 6 for one project) and image size is therefore at least 
8K larger. Also, in msvc it's even possible to merge some segments with 
/MERGE linker option; the resulted dll has then only 5 or 4 sections. 
Unfortunately, I don't know how can I force ld to use less sections?? 
Is this possible through ld scripts? There are 5 files in ldscripts 
directory, 3 of them are identical and I didn't find any documentation 
about these files. 


Regards,
Lado Brisar.
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