Re: to reduce footprint

[Lin George]

Thanks Michael! Sorry for any confusions. What I concern is not memory 
footprint, but the physical size of the binary. Yes, I am developing embedded 
applications. I am wondering some general ideas of how to make the footprint 
smaller for physical files? Any ideas or comments?


regards,
George

----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Eager <address@hidden>
To: Lin George <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:21:47 AM
Subject: Re: to reduce footprint


Lin George wrote:
> Thanks Michael! I am interested why using printf will make footprint/malloc 
> will make footprint larger? I think they are just some functions from other 
> shared libraries, which will only have a link/address in the module which 
> invokes them -- they are not inline functions. Why using printf and malloc 
> will make footprint larger?

I'm not sure why you sent this to the make help list.
Try address@hidden

You've never said what your target is or how you are
building your application.  It's hard to guess what
you are doing.

Most folks concerned about memory footprint are working
on embedded systems with statically linked applications.
Most folks who have systems which have shared libraries
don't have large concerns about memory footprint.

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Michael Eager     address@hidden
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