Re: [gentoo-user] bloated by gcc

["Poison BL." <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Kerin Millar <kerframil@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 29/09/2014 16:10, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>>
>
>>>>> I'm having a somewhat disgusting issue on my Gentoo: binaries are
>>>>> unaccountably large.
>>>>
>
>>
>> You might consider making contact with the toolchain herd at gentoo or
>> filing a bug. I, for one, would be interested to know the outcome.
>>
> Well, I suppose this one is the list every gentooer subscribes to, and
> I would like to be sure I'm not making something silly before filing a
> bug...
>
> Meanwhile, I tried compiling with clang. It produces similar sizes in
> Gentoo and in LFS (same i3 computer), although about 200B larger than
> in Slackware/atom. So, it really seems to be a gcc issue.
>
> thanks
>
> Jorge
>

Just the off the top of my head thoughts on how I'd approach this. GCC
has the option to not clean up its temp files used during the build,
as well as outputting annotated assembly mid-build. The latter might
be the most enlightening on what's being treated differently in the
output of the various systems. I don't use those tricks often enough
to remember what flags are what off the top of my head, since I only
really dig that deep when playing with my avr based toys, but just a
couple ideas I thought I'd pass along.

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Joshua M. Murphy