From: Garance A Drosihn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> At 2:52 PM -0800 3/21/04, Kip Macy wrote:
> >The heuristics vary from platform to platform - what does
> >"objdump -d" show?
> 
> Based on what I see from that, the 'ps.o' which has the extra
> strcmp is about 40 bytes larger than the one without it.  And
> now that you mention it, doing a plain 'ls -l' of ps.o shows
> that it is only 40 bytes larger.  It's when you combine that
> file with the other *.o files, and strip it, that the final
> result ends up 3940 bytes larger.
> 
> So maybe this has something to do with how linking is done
> for ELF modules.  Unfortunately, I need to be concentrating
> on something else right now...

Its not just bumping you up another module 4K pages? The 
linker aligns text, data, bss, rodata, etc.

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