[uClibc]compiling with -fPIC
David Schleef
ds at schleef.org
Fri Oct 12 22:28:30 UTC 2001
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:17:23AM -0500, Cam Mayor wrote:
> David Schleef writes:
> >
> > I've noticed a significant size difference between code compiled
> > with -fpic and without. Specifically,
> > with:
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 485172 11. Okt 16:03 libc.a
> > without:
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 ds ds 465668 11. Okt 19:57 libc.a
>
> If you think 20k is significant (a 4% saving to you), then you
> might consider using the strip command after compilation. Then
> again, maybe strip doesn't apply to library compilation - i'm not
> sure.
It's stripped in both cases. -fpic affects code generation.
dave...
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