Re: [MiNT] large binaries with MiNTLib 0.55.2

[Tomas Berndtsson <tomas@nocrew.org>]

"Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de> writes:

> The main reason for the increase in size are the new printf 
> functions.  They offer a lot more features, less bugs and that
> has its price.  Apart from that the entire stdio model has a
> very high abstraction level with the same consequences.
> 
> BTW, how was your simple hello world program? Was it with
> puts or with printf?

It was with printf, so I guess that made a large difference in this
case. I haven't really compared "real" programs very well yet.

The question came up when Christer Gustavsson compiled oAESis using
the new MiNTLib, and found it to be about 50% larger, 200K vs 300K, I
think. I don't know if he stripped the binary, though.

About stripping (programs :), do I lose anything when stripping a
program which doesn't have debug info anyway? I know the symbol table
shrinks, but is that used for anything when not debugging?


Tomas