Re: GCC -- reducing compiled code size

[Paul Pluzhnikov]

Ignoramus3627 <ignoramus3627@NOSPAM.3627.invalid> writes:

>> You can try to understand where that size comes from -- extract a
>> couple of .o files from the library, and examine what they are
>> comprized of (exact commands for this are system specific, and you
>> provided no clues what your platform might be).
>
> Linux, GCC 4.1.

In that case, use 'objdump -h' and 'readelf -S'.

The *.linkonce.* sections are the ones that will only be linked once
(i.e. repetitions will be eliminated).

Thomas Jensen <thomas.jensen.88@gmail.com> writes:

> You could try -Os (it tells GCC to optimize for size.)

That is unlikely to save more than 5% off the size of lib*.a

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