juhp> I am curious, can someone explain to me why for me XEmacs juhp> binaries built under Sparc/Solaris-2+gcc-2.8 are always so juhp> much larger than XEmacs binaries built under Intel/Linux? juhp> -rwxr-xr-x 1 petersen 19678112 May 13 13:37 solaris/bin/xemacs* juhp> I don't have the exact size of my Linux xemacs* binary but I juhp> seem to recall that it is of the order of 3+Mb. Why is the juhp> Solaris binary 5 times larger? MB> My previous posting to this mailing list suggested that MB> Solaris binaries should be just a little larger. MB> Linux, egcs 1.0.2, CFLAGS=-O2: 2314155 Linux, egcs 1.0.2, MB> CFLAGS=-O3: 2441153 MB> Solaris, egcs 1.0.2, CFLAGS=-O2: 2843084 Solaris, egcs 1.0.2, MB> CFLAGS=-O3: 2963692 MB> But I look at my debug builds, and they are almost as big as MB> yours: MB> Solaris, egcs 1.0.2, CFLAGS=-g: 18146604 MB> It is very likely to be debug information that is repeated in MB> all the .o files. Thanks Martin. I think that is the simple explanation I was looking for. I forget (to say) that I build XEmacs without debugging on my little i486 at home.... I didn't realize that debugging info makes such a huge difference in binary size. Cheers, -- Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen <http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~petersen/> Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University