Subject: Re: fixing ramdisk-tiny.fs explosions
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 02/24/2003 12:54:57
Adding a debug target to the make's which do this is fine, but shouldn't
be the default.
James
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>My build of ramdisk-tiny.fs is currently exploding (1515520 bytes),
>this could easily be due to a local change pulling in an unexpected
>chunk of libc.
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>However the build does make it rather difficult to work out what
>has happened. In particular leaving an unstripped ramdiskbin
>and making ld output a mapfile would make finding what has grown
>or been unexpectedly included (and why) a lot easier.
>
>This would be particulary true if something in the source tree
>indicated which bits of libc are expected to be included.
>
>I've also just noticed that 'objdump -h ramdiskbin' shows:
> 12 .note 00002ef4 00000000 00000000 00115420 2**0
> CONTENTS, READONLY
> 13 .ident 00006d9f 00000000 00000000 00118314 2**0
> CONTENTS, READONLY
>I think these could be safely deleted (saving 40k).
>
> David
>
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>David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
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