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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!agate!glass From: glass@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Glass) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: gdb size Date: 13 Aug 93 21:04:36 Organization: Organization is evil. Lines: 36 Distribution: world Message-ID: <GLASS.93Aug13210436@sun-lamp.postgres.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: Charles Hannum) writes: >Because GDB 4.9, with BFD, is ridiculously large. We also have not >had time to port BFD and test it very well. kithrup 1% size /usr/bin/gdb ~/src/gdb/gdb/gdb text data bss dec hex 315392 49152 76008 440552 6b8e8 /usr/bin/gdb 700416 40960 66236 807612 c52bc /users/sef/src/gdb/gdb/gdb That's a 4.10 gdb (just released today). Part of the reason for the extra size in the new gdb is the chill parser, which isn't in 3.5, as well as a whole bunch of other stuff that I could remove if I wanted to. It won't work with netbsd yet, because when I decided to try to port it, the netbsd machine I have access to was dead :(. But maybe sometime this weekend. Actually my objection to gdb is not its compiled size, but the ridiculous size of the distribution when unpacked. The latest distribution is some 13 Mb unpacked. Now, I admit that I really enjoy using gdb, and have found its flexibility to be a life saver in the past. But this is getting ridiculous. It is now only a little smaller than NetBSD's usr.bin srcs. Is there a plan to cut up the distribution in the near future? I'm sure there are features that I'd be happy to do without.... later, Adam Glass a fan of gdb, but one lacking in disk space. -- Adam Glass |Campus : glass@postgres.Berkeley.EDU too many roles at Berkeley |Home : glass@solipsist.CS.Berkeley.EDU "reality is for dead birds"