Based on something at work, I was looking at executable sizes. I
eventually tried a program stripped about as far down as I could:
int main(void);
int main(void)
{
return(0);
}
and built it -static. size on the resulting binary:
sparc, my mutant 1.4T:
text data bss dec hex filename
12616 124 288 13028 32e4 main
amd64, my mutant 5.2:
text data bss dec hex filename
152613 4416 16792 173821 2a6fd main
amd64, 9.0_STABLE (ftp.n.o):
text data bss dec hex filename
562318 29064 2176416 2767798 2a3bb6 main
12K to do nothing is bad enough (I'm going to be looking at why it's
that big). 149K is even more disturbing (I'll be looking at that too).
But over half a meg of text and two megs of BSS? To do nothing?
Surely something is wrong somewhere.
Not that NetBSD is alone in this. On an Ubuntu machine at work, I see
text data bss dec hex filename
761750 20804 6016 788570 c085a main
but I hardly think Ubuntu's sins are relevant to NetBSD. :-)
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