On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:42 AM, <David.Comay at sun.com> wrote: >> I did finally do a build with the new Mesa version switched back to gcc, >> and it does seem gcc builds noticably smaller binaries than Sun Studio, >> so we may have to revert to the GNU compilers for Mesa in order to fit >> on the LiveCD, if we can't find a better fix soon: > > We should see though how well these compress with LZMA given the > performance improvments we should be seeing with that.
Just curious.. are you adding -xspace.. If you look at the elf binary.. where is the extra space coming from inside the binary?.. Anywhere noticeable? If you can preprocess the source so that it's easily comparable/reproducible and send to the toolchain list.. I'll be converting your xorg packaging/patches over to my new system this week and can also test lzma and xz (basically lzma2) as well compare generated sizes.. Rumor is that SS 12.1 EA is coming soon so may be worth testing against that as well.. I see a lot of possibilities vs just reverting back to gcc.. Cheers, ./C
