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From: gary@dgcad.SV.DG.COM (Gary Bridgewater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: GCC for the Motorola 88000
Message-ID: <1259@svx.SV.DG.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 89 06:42:21 GMT
References: <1374@xyzzy.UUCP> <1612@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: gary@svx.SV.DG.COM ()
Organization: Data General SDD, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1612@bnr-rsc.UUCP> bcarh185!schow@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Stanley T.H. Chow) writes:
>In article <1374@xyzzy.UUCP> wood@gen-rtx.rtp.dg.com () writes:
>>./pub/gnu:
>>-rw-rw-r--   1 1366375 Oct 11 20:27 aviion-fbe-usr.tar.Z
>>-rw-rw-r--   1  300929 May  9  1989 bison.tar.Z
>>-rw-rw-r--   1 12595200 Nov  8 16:03 emacs-18.55.8.bin.tar
>>-rw-rw-r--   1 29696000 Nov  8 16:10 emacs-18.55.src.tar
>
> Do I read this right? 12.5 MegaBytes for an editor! (30 meg in source)!
> Is this a comment on emacs, gnu-c, 88K or what?

The executables aren't stripped.  But remember - nothing from MIT is
JUST anything. It slices, it dices, it reads mail, balances your checkbook,
plans menus, reads news ....

total 7716
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin         7742 Oct 12 09:56 COPYING
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin       234649 Oct 12 09:56 DOC
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin       234649 Oct 12 09:56 DOC-18.55.5
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin         8350 Oct 12 09:56 FTP
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin        23947 Oct 12 09:56 GNU
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin        13817 Oct 12 09:56 MAILINGLISTS
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin        23552 Oct 12 09:56 NEWS
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin        51193 Oct 12 09:56 ONEWS
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin        47927 Oct 12 09:56 OONEWS
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin        30060 Oct 12 09:56 SERVICE
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin         6518 Oct 12 09:56 TERMS
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin        33852 Oct 12 09:56 TUTORIAL
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        83360 Oct 12 09:55 ctags*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        50526 Oct 12 09:55 cvtmail*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 200      68         34584 Sep 21 11:44 digest-doc*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin      2311147 Oct 12 09:56 emacs*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin       128484 Oct 12 09:55 emacsclient*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        50778 Oct 12 09:56 env*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        83360 Oct 12 09:55 etags*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin        19157 Oct 12 09:55 fakemail*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin       128769 Oct 12 09:55 loadst*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 200      68         51461 Sep 21 11:41 make-docfile*
-rwsr-sr-x   1 root     mail       51673 Oct 12 09:55 movemail*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin       136280 Oct 12 09:55 server*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 200      68         40832 Sep 21 11:41 sorted-doc*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 200      68         43251 Sep 21 11:44 yow*

Strip'ing would probably knock this at least in half.
-- 
Gary Bridgewater, Data General Corporation, Sunnyvale California
gary@proa.sv.dg.com or {amdahl,aeras,amdcad}!dgcad.SV.DG.COM!gary
Shaken but not stirred.