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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!bcm!rice!fullmer
- From: fullmer@owlnet.rice.edu (Robert Fullmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Pure vs. Demand Paged Sparc Executables
- Summary: Trying to generate pure executables
- Keywords: Linking, Compiling
- Message-ID: <BtGFIH.839@rice.edu>
- Date: 23 Aug 1992 20:56:40 GMT
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Organization: Rice University
- Lines: 20
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- Pure dynamically linked executables on the Sparc are smaller than demand
- paged executables. The reason for this, I gather, is that pure
- executables are not page aligned, as demand paged executables are, by
- default. I've perused the man pages on ld and cc, but haven't yet been
- able to successfully generate a pure executable by frobbing the flags.
-
- Is there some magic sequence of flags I should pass to ld, or cc, in
- order to get more compact executables? I don't mind if the solution is
- complex.
-
- Yes, I know about strip. Stripped demand paged executables are still
- significantly larger than pure executables.
-
- RTFMs are ok, but I've already had a good look through the FMs, so
- please be specific as to what I should be looking for.
-
- Emailed replies would be preferable. If there is interest, I will post a
- summary.
-
- Rob Fullmer : celine@athena.mit.edu : fullmer@rice.edu
-