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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 2003 00:01:16 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood
Message-ID:  <20030401210116.GA43262@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030401202258.GA10571@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:22:58PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:56:52PM -0600, Juli Mallett wrote:
> > * De: David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> [ Data: 2003-04-01 ]
> > 	[ Subjecte: Re: FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood ]
> > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:03:48PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > > Anyway, I've committed the fix to release/Makefile that strips
> > > > the .comment section out from the BOOTMFS kernel.  If you have
> > > > time, you can exploit the effect of this by changing sweaping
> > > > over src/sys/ and changing rcsid =3D "$FreeBSD$" lines to be
> > > > __FBSDID() -- that would put these IDs in the .comment section,
> > > > thus reducing the size of the stripped kernel by a few more
> > > > kilobytes.
> > >=20
> > > Why can't the bits be built with -Dlint to remove rcsid's.
> >=20
> > Because that would change other things, wouldn't it.  Like maybe
> > structure sizes or macros which need to actually work?
>=20
> I didn't see any issues like that with a very curiory look at the
> sources.  Are you willing to take a look also?
>=20
With my very cursory look, I think the "#ifdef lint" part of
<sys/cdefs.h> is going to be a major problem here.


Cheers,
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