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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2007 13:54:16 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: size of kernel after gcc4.2 upgrade
Message-ID:  <20070525135416.7u2tw5ibtwwogko8@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070525105203.GB6500@rambler-co.ru>
References:  <20070525095146.GA45288@freebsd.org> <20070525105203.GB6500@rambler-co.ru>

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Quoting Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> (from Fri, 25 May 2007 =20
14:52:03 +0400):

> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:51:46AM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> I just noticed that
>> spravci ~# ls -l /boot/kernel*/kernel
>> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3389971 May 18 12:03 /boot/kernel.old/kernel*
>> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  5211345 May 25 11:47 /boot/kernel/kernel*
>>
>> ie. after gcc42 import the kernel size increased roughly by 60% thats
>> a little too much. is there any forgotten option or something that
>> makes the kernel grow so big?
>>
> My numbers are different (1% for the GENERIC kernel, and this
> is with all code changes in-between):
>
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8942239 Apr 11 16:20 kernel.old/kernel
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  9035021 May 24 16:23 kernel/kernel
>
> bde@ also reported a 1% code bloat in another thread, so I think
> you should look at your own changes.

My minimal kernel without additional changes shows:
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   2.5M  7 Apr 17:22 /boot/kernel.old/kernel*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   8.1M  7 Apr 17:22 /boot/kernel.old/kernel.symbol=
s*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   3.9M 24 Mai 18:46 /boot/kernel/kernel*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    14M 24 Mai 18:46 /boot/kernel/kernel.symbols*

But this is with debugging (-g) enabled. How's the .symbols generated? =20
Can there be some new stuff in the kernel which needs to be handled in =20
the .symbols file generation?

Bye,
Alexander.

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