Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/amd64/conf

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 06:25:06PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Sun Feb 20 2011 at 17:15:57 +0100, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> > => 1.3MiB. So, a total of 1.3M + 700k = 2MiB. Still missing 1.5MiB.
> > MODULAR options seems to consume ~70kiB , so I would assume that the
> > rest is due to PIC mode and ELF headers... ?
> 
> Dunno where the space is going, but it's certainly not PIC overhead,
> since the kernel or kernel modules are not PIC.

The kernel modules will contain relocation info.
For comparison you need to use 'size -A' (or similar) not ls.
The amd64 objects may incluse the eh_frame section, kernel stuff
should be compiled without that section.

        David

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