Re: LYNX-DEV 2-8 object size & long-list

[Jan Hlavacek]

On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 02:39:47PM -0500, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > 
> > Re: Sun's compiler and lynx size
> > 
> > Lynx 2.7.1 dev ac-118 on Solaris 2.5.1/SPARC, Sun's compiler, curses,
> > externs enabled, nsl-fork enabled, zlib enabled, and using ncurses,
> > compiles for me into a 4.5 meg image(!) which strips down into a 4.2 meg
> > executable.
> I don't have the binaries around (deleted after testing), but Sun's compiler
> makes binaries roughly twice the size of gcc (because, I think, the loader
> format is different).  So ~4Mb may be plausible.
 
>       setenv CFLAGS -O
>       configure

I did that,  with Sun's compiler (SunOS math 5.6 Generic sun4u sparc),
for Lynx Version 2.8pre.2 (1998),  with slang,  eanble-nsl-fork,
enable-externals,  and I got
-rwxr-xr-x   1 lahvak   grads     1264560 Mar  4 06:39 lynx

Looks OK to me.

lahvak
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