On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 September 2014 23:46, Ian Grant wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Tobias Ulmer <tobi...@tmux.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 01:26:48PM -0400, Ian Grant wrote:
>>>> I can compile the first stage OK, and the binaries are quite modest:
>>>>
>>>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 ian  ian  17.2M Sep  6 03:47 prev-gcc/cc1
>>>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 ian  ian   1.2M Sep  6 04:24 prev-gcc/cpp
>>>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 ian  ian   1.2M Sep  6 04:24 prev-gcc/xgcc
>>>
>>> Gcc 4.9 binaries on OpenBSD/amd64 are resonable:
>>>
>>> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  bin    11.6M Sep  9 03:02 cc1
>>> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  bin    15.4M Sep  9 03:02 gnat1
>>> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  bin   749K Sep  9 03:02 ecpp
>>
>> I think we need to be able to explain this. It's an increase of over
>> 60%, I wouldn't expect that to be due to the relative ineffiiciency of
>> Intel instruction encoding over AMD.  And it is not due to the
>> inclusion of libsylkrts (it's much easier to say "Intel library", how
>> many other libraries are there in GCC that were written by Intel?)
>
> liboffload might get added soon.

I don't know what that is. I'll look it up later maybe.

>> because that is not in the stage1 bootstrap.
>
> Are you looking at stripped binaries or unstripped?

I don't know. How should I find out, read the Makefile? :-) Doesn't
the stage-1 get stripped? I'm not a GCC developer, I'm a 'user.'

> Have you compared the binaries using size(1) instead of ls(1)?

Yes, they're a lot smaller. Are you suggesting the filesystem size is
just holes in the file? I would want to know what data is in there.
Think of this as a security audit.

Ian

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