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Re: lynx-dev bloating binaries (was clue)
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Webmaster Jim |
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Re: lynx-dev bloating binaries (was clue) |
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Fri, 26 Feb 1999 05:48:56 -0500 |
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 11:42:37AM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> > Do you have a list of "features" you want to see as compile time options
> To mention this is unfair since Jim is already working on it, but as
> an example of the humongous amount of debugging code, there needs to
> be a way to turn off CTRACE and TRACE. The saving in binary size is
> significant. In _release_ (production-level) code sets, the toggle to
> turn trace on/off should not be compiled in as the default.
"Working on it" is too kind a phrase; I forced a compile to not include
traces and it reduced the binary size about 10%, IIRC. I haven't gone
back to the configure drawing board yet to iron out the logic (2 weeks
of thought, 2 lines of code :-).
The real code bloat is features which users request: look at the -help
output for instance:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jim wheel 1120499 Jan 30 17:20 lynx
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 565248 Jan 20 1997 lynx2-6FM
05:39:45/jim> ./lynx2-6FM -help | wc -l
81
05:39:52/jim> ./lynx -help | wc -l
117
That's almost 50% more command line options, not to mention configurable
behaviour on startup or on-the-fly,
The 2-6FM file was stripped (but that doesn't shrink current much):
05:40:07/jim> file lynx2-6FM
lynx2-6FM: NetBSD/i386 demand paged dynamically linked executable
05:44:09/jim> file lynx
lynx: NetBSD/i386 demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped
05:44:16/jim> strip lynx
05:44:26/jim> ls -l lynx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jim wheel 1040384 Feb 26 05:44 lynx
The last time I looked, there were places where static arrays are
allocated that could be made dynamic, shrinking the binary a bit, as
well as avoiding buffer overruns if done correctly.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Marvin the Paranoid Android.
- Re: lynx-dev bloating binaries (was clue), Henry Nelson, 1999/02/25
- Re: lynx-dev bloating binaries, Philip Webb, 1999/02/25
- Re: lynx-dev bloating binaries (was clue), Klaus Weide, 1999/02/25
- Re: lynx-dev bloating binaries (was clue),
Webmaster Jim <=
- Re: lynx-dev bloating binaries (was clue), Webmaster Jim, 1999/02/27
- Re: lynx-dev bloating binaries (was clue), mattack, 1999/02/27
- Re: lynx-dev bloating binaries (was clue), Webmaster Jim, 1999/02/27
- lynx-dev --disable-gopher flag (was: bloating binaries), Klaus Weide, 1999/02/28
- Re: lynx-dev --disable-gopher flag (was: bloating binaries), mattack, 1999/02/28
- Re: lynx-dev --disable-gopher flag (was: bloating binaries), Webmaster Jim, 1999/02/28
- Re: lynx-dev --disable-gopher flag (was: bloating binaries), Webmaster Jim, 1999/02/28