[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes:
> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> can somebody please explain, why using the gcc 3.1
> >> stops the bloat of the compiled lyx?
> >
> | IIRC, they had some changes in the default debug format (this would
> | probably not apply if you stripped executables), and they have had
> | changes in the C++ API (for example, template handling).
>
> Yes, but the change in the debug format should increase the size,
> right?
* The default debugging format for most ELF platforms (including
GNU/Linux and FreeBSD; notable exception is Solaris) has changed
from stabs to DWARF2. This requires GDB 5.1.1 or later.
I have not found anything definite about size, except that people
complained about dwarf2, and that there was something going to be
changed. That was in some news from year 2000. Whether anything
actually did change, and whether this might have been reason for the
switch to dwarf2, I have no idea.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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