[uClibc]Re: Tiny C Compiler!

johan.adolfsson at axis.com johan.adolfsson at axis.com
Tue Aug 20 14:28:50 UTC 2002


Arnaud Rolly wrote:
> If disk/flash size matters, use UPX (http://upx.sourceforge.net) to get
about
> 50% binary size reduction.
>
> Yesterday, i was toying with tcc and uClibc and i had an idea that must
> already been exposed here (don't know!) : If embedded size really matters,
> why not extend the current uClibC linker to support compressed libraries ?
> It'll give about 50% storage size reduction.

I guess if size matters (it does in an embedded system),
you would use a filesystem with compression such as cramfs
or JFFS2 anyway. And I believe it's better to do that on the
filesystem level so you can use paging without problems.

/Johan





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