[svlug] Re: Compiling C++, Linux vs OpenBSD ?

[Dave Zarzycki]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:

> 	In doing some work in C++ I was compiling the very same
> program in Linux and in OpenBSD and the difference in size in the
> resulting binary confused me for it compiled so much bigger in
> OpenBSD. Here is the size difference.

Try this on each system:

g++ -c data.cpp
du -b data.o      # this is the size of the actual object code of data.cpp
g++ data.o -o data
du -b data        # this is the size of the data.cpp executable


My guess is that more code is getting statically linked into your OpenBSD
executable than your Linux executable.

davez

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