Re: [Gnu-arch-users] libarch and version string (was Re: libtla, version_string)

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 21:36 +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:10:56PM +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> >> I found that the 'version_string' is duplicated accross almost every
> >> source files correspondig to a command.
> >> 
> >> $ find tla-1.3/src/tla/libarch/ -name 'cmd*.c'  | wc -l
> >> 100
> >> 
> >> $ strings /home/meuh/bin/tla | grep -c 'from regexps\.com'
> >> 97
> >> 
> >> $ grep 'char.*version_string' tla-1.3/src/tla/libarch/*  | wc -l
> >> 97
> >> 
> >> This is many bytes wasted in the binary to store redundant information,
> >> so we could add a version.c file holding only one defintion of the
> >> version string.
> >
> > Get a linker that does not suck. Like the one from current binutils.
> >
> > address@hidden:~$ strings /usr/bin/tla | grep -c 'from regexps\.com'
> > 5
> >
> 
> If not shrinking the binary, removing all the version strings
> will speedup compilation and link time, reduce the source code size, and
> no more disturb me wondering why there's so many different version
> strings. 

neither the linker, nor compilation speed & source size bother me. Doing
the same thing twice though... that bothers me :}.

Rob

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