Binary is twice bigger

[Leon Pollak]

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:11, you wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 December 2003 12:24, you wrote:
> > > > 	Some time ago I ported one of my applications from RTEMS version
> > > > 4.0.3 (also ported to CodeWarrior in Windows) to RTEMS 4.6 (pre-last
> > > > snapshot) in Linux. I used the basic configuration (without
> > > > networking) with miniIMFS with RTEMS API and without any other
> > > > options (I hope so). I want to remind, that 4.0.3 RTEMS version was a
> > > > "pure" kernel version yet, without IMFS and Co. As the result, I can
> > > > compare the size of working binary in this 2 cases (both without
> > > > optimizations).
> > > > 	The size of Windows/CodeWarrior version is 173KB. The size of
> > > > GDB/Linux version is 349KB - twice bigger!!!
>
> Early this year we have ported RTEMS (MPC860 target) to MetroWerks
> CodeWarrior for Windows. There was a significant difference in size too.
> The 2 main reasons are:
> * CodeWarrior uses *real* EABI, not just some #defines in the Makefiles
Please, can you describe this a bit wider? What is real EABI and what is not?


> * The Linker does a real good job of dead-stripping code
Yes!!!
I checked the map for the routines I know 100% are not called and they are 
still there!
But I am almost sure that there is some flag/option or something else, that 
forces linker to remove the, no?


> And this had nothing to do with the C-Libraries, because we have used
> NewLib for our port.
A very interesting issue. My previous port to Metrowerks based on their run 
time libraries. So, I thought that this has some influence.


> In case you are interested, we could go into more details.
I shall be glad if you have a bit of time.

> Best regards
> Dieter B. Schäfer
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