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Date:      Tue, 1 Apr 2003 13:56:52 -0600
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood
Message-ID:  <20030401135652.A53787@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030401194712.GA10151@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:47:12AM -0800
References:  <20030329190908R.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <3E857E9C.F7476A32@mindspring.com> <20030329203005.GB94956@sunbay.com> <20030331150348.GD21700@sunbay.com> <20030401194712.GA10151@dragon.nuxi.com>

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* 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 = "$FreeBSD$" 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.
> 
> Why can't the bits be built with -Dlint to remove rcsid's.

Because that would change other things, wouldn't it.  Like maybe
structure sizes or macros which need to actually work?
-- 
juli mallett. email: jmallett@freebsd.org; aim: bsdflata; efnet: juli;



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