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From: cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Sc 6.8 binary size
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Date: 10 Sep 90 07:56:01 GMT
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ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) writes:
>In <4284@crash.cts.com> cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose) writes:
 
stuff omitted here concerning sc 6.8 compiling...
 
>Wow.  I just generated a binary on my VAX using gcc, and it was 117K
>of text, 21K of data, and 11.5K BSS.  Unstripped, its binary is 158K
>on the disk.  The 3b1 must have an unsual processor or a less-than-optimal
>compiler.
 
Dumb looks still free...
 
I must *stop* programming until 0500 - the coffee makes *everything* seem
possible, even easy, and fingers float across the keyboard translating
thoughts before they are even recognised.  Only in the clear light of dawn
(well, mid-afternoon) does the horrible truth emerge...
 
Yes, I blew it, forgot to strip the symbol tables.  Try these numbers for
a PC7300/3b1 running SysV3.50 and compiling sc 6.8 with the standard
compiler, 'based on the AT&T portable C compiler':
 
155,900 bytes of text, 52,640 bytes of data, 18,768 bytes of bss for a total
of 227,308 bytes.  The actual file is 210,366 bytes.
 
Still won't fit in 64K+64K without unusual cunning; I hope you make it,
though, because it would be very nice to have.  By the way, the current
size record on the 7300 seems to be Kyoto lisp, with a 1.4 *Megabyte*
binary.  Not knowing anything about lisp, I can't imagine what they put
in a file that size - some of the whales they will keep catching perhaps?
 
Thanks for the warning - Will.
 
PS.  I've sent you a message and a new man4 - your current version is
     doubtful.
 
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