Re: Dead code elimination

dd@mips.com (David DiGiacomo)
Tue, 5 Nov 91 19:08:57 -0800

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From: dd@mips.com (David DiGiacomo)
Keywords: linker, optimize
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 91-10-109 91-11-007
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 91 19:08:57 -0800

In article 91-11-007 clyde@hitech.com.au (Clyde
Smith-Stubbs) writes:
>I'd still like to know why a simple printf("Hello world\n"); when compiled
>with cc -n on my Sun produces a 94K program! No wonder they had to
>implement dynamic linking! And that 94K includes over 40K code AND over
>40K data! Does anyone have any idea what it is all for?


Table driven base conversion routines! A pet project of one very
intelligent, very talented person at Sun... whose priorities probably
don't coincide with those of the typical programmer.


P.S. SunOS nm -s is very handy, too bad more vendors don't provide it.


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