I did ``cpp -D_GNU_SOURCE file.h | wc'' on a few headers.
Here are results ( format: lines words bytes )
hurd.h :
23528 16126 167120
hurd/store.h
13732 9483 100985
hurd/trivfs.h
24875 17743 184575
hurd/diskfs.h
28631 21074 216393
For comparing :
stdio.h :
2556 1915 17840
stdlib.h :
2591 2080 18615
unistd.h :
2652 1685 17454
Hurd headers are about 10x bigger than other C headers.
( This is one of the reasons why reading headers doesn't work
as a way of learning programming Hurd )
Do we really need so big files ?
Nobody ever thought of reducing them to reasonable sizes,
probably by checking if all sub-includes are necesary
or rearanging them a bit ???
