ACE/TAO on RTEMS

[Sergei Organov]

Joel,

Are gcc flag '-ffunction-sections' and ld flag '--gc-sections' available for
your target? Do you use them?

BR,
Sergei Organov.

Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I am havnig some initial success building ACE/TAO.  I have
> managed to build ACE and link all the tests without error.
> I am now compiling TAO.  It appears that the ACE test executables
> are quite large.  Any thoughts:
> 
> bash$ sparc-rtems-size *Test
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> 2156192	 139232	  43796	2339220	 23b194	ARGV_Test
> 2156448	 139104	  43796	2339348	 23b214	Aio_Platform_Test
> 2158960	 139888	  43796	2342644	 23bef4	Atomic_Op_Test
> 2164400	 140016	  43796	2348212	 23d4b4	Auto_IncDec_Test
> 2156928	 139104	  43796	2339828	 23b3f4	Barrier_Test
> 2155728	 139136	  43796	2338660	 23af64	Basic_Types_Test
> 2167744	 140592	  43796	2352132	 23e404	Buffer_Stream_Test
> 2247104	 142688	  43796	2433588	 252234	CDR_File_Test
> 2207968	 141376	  43796	2393140	 248434	CDR_Test
> 2263824	 144928	  43796	2452548	 256c44	Cache_Map_Manager_Test
> 2378256	 157392	  43796	2579444	 275bf4	Cached_Accept_Conn_Test
> 2359312	 154544	  43796	2557652	 2706d4	Cached_Conn_Test
> 2204864	 141872	  43796	2390532	 247a04	Capabilities_Test
> ....
> 
> I am looking at real .text, not executable file size so that
> mistake is out.  
> 
> This is a lot of C++ code so there might be some bad combination
> of options that is contributing to things.  The compile options
> are "-fno-implicit-templates -fno-rtti -DACE_LACKS_RTTI ".  Could
> I do better?
> 
> I know ACE/TAO can be subsetted but am not looking at that since
> I am focuing on building everything. :)
> 
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