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posted by rr Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 01.03.2008, 20:25

> No, they aren't bloated, but they aren't as small as they could be. I've
> never been able to recompile the LIBC.A (tried yet again yesterday,
Did you ask at comp.os.msdos.djgpp? A nice guy to write with is Juan.

> unsuccessfully), but using -Os would probably help a little. (Most stuff
> seems to be compiled using -O2, which isn't totally optimal for size.)
But sometimes I want to optimize for speed. ;-)

> There is no "one size fits all" here.
Not only here. :-D

> You can always disable cmdline globbing, arg parsing, and/or env. file
I always forget about that.

> loading if you want extra space (see CRT0.H). And don't forget UPX. (But
> yes, 2.04 binaries are noticably a tiny bit bigger, symlink support?? I
> dunno ....)
Don't know, but I will no longer develop using djdev203. Hopefully this will force getting final djdev204 out some day. ;-)

> If only *nix people weren't so obsessed with using obscure features in the
> ultra-super-modern latest version of MAKE/BASH/etc. which makes ports so
> much harder! :-|
Depends on your experience. In the beginning I hated Make or Bash, but I learned more and more and now I like it (most times). For example I wrote my own Makefile for Dmidecode, because the one supplied was "damn stupid". ;-)

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