Re: Locating large header files?
On 5/19/2010 1:23 PM, none wrote:
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
* Victor Bazarov, on 19.05.2010 16:09:
On 5/19/2010 9:26 AM, none wrote:
[..]
BTW: This is my compiler options:
SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -w -lX11 -Dcimg_use_xshm -lXext
-Dcimg_use_xrandr -lXrandr -O3 -fpermissive -march=nocona -m64
-ffast-math -funroll-loops -finline-functions")
This would be relevant if we were in a compiler newsgroup. We are not.
Well, there are not that many C++ compilers around. This seems to be
g++. I'd suggest adding '-s' (IIRC) in there to strip away symbols.
Templates generate a lot of symbols, and very long ones.
Possibly a little '-s' (or stripping symbols manually afterwards)
could reduce the 8 MiB to, well, something much smaller... ;-)
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf (practical mode)
Thanks that removed 1 MB :-) But unfortunately the compile time is the
same. Why would anyone want to include this in the executable if it only
takes up space?
Neither the compiler nor the linker are capable of predicting that you
are *never* going to use a debugger with your executable (which often
requires symbols for more efficient and effective debugging). So,
symbols don't just "take up space". As to why putting the symbols in is
a default action, that's up to the implementors of the tool, and
apparently they've decided that unless you tell the tool *not* to create
symbols (by means of -s in your case), they are going to create them.
But this is all irrelevant in a *language* newsgroup. And off-topic.
V
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