Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV
On Tue 19 May 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> - but I think the code
> size increase we'd get from compiling everything with pgcc would be
> detrimental to small-medium systems. Already egcs gives quite an increase
> in size (apt's .deb is 60k larger!) :<
Hmmm, I seem to remember from an earlier discussion on gcc/egcs that
egcs does C++ exceptions better/whatever, and that means each function
gets some overhead added which leads to the increased size. Apt is C++,
right? There was some flag to switch the exception stuff off where it
wasn't needed...
disclaimer: This is all from fuzzy memory.
Paul Slootman
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