svn 15220

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue May 30 18:25:14 UTC 2006


For anyone else this confused, I seem to have bcc'd the busybox list instead 
of cc'd the busybox list by mistake.  My bad...

Rob

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 3:15 am, walter harms wrote:
> i do not think that i am the intended receiver ...
>
> no idea what you are talking about.
>
> re,
>   wh
>
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > If you want to see what's going on here, do an "objdump -h busybox_old"
> > and notice the "Algn" field, which is alignment.  I mentioned there's
> > rounding going on?  There's a big chunk of it.
> >
> > Stop beating on bloatcheck and nm.  If you don't understand what the
> > sizes mean, fine.  But saying "the number of actual assembly language
> > instructions this code produces is irrelevant when we're optimizing for
> > size" is just stupid.  Yes, there are other factors downstream that
> > affect a given binary, but long-term what we need to pay attention to is
> > code size and memory usage, _not_ the padding offsets of this particular
> > link run which can indeed go _up_ when you shrink the code.
> >
> > Rob

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