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Re: Problem in making ddd
From: |
Freddy Jensen |
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Re: Problem in making ddd |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:06:19 -0700 |
>From: Andreas Zeller <address@hidden>
>Date: Mon Apr 2 2001 12:55am
>To: <jensen>
>Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>Subj: Re: Problem in making ddd
>
>Hi!
>
>address@hidden (Freddy Jensen) writes:
>
>> I just wanted to let you know that I found two minor problems
>> while building ddd-3.3 with gcc 2.95.2 on AIX4.3.3 and HP-UX-10.20 [...]
>
>Thanks! These will be in the next `PROBLEMS' file.
>
>--
>Andreas Zeller Universitaet Passau
> http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/st/staff/zeller/
Andreas,
Someone asked me about the filesize of the ddd executable
for HP-UX. I had not even paid attention to it (because we
have plenty of diskspace), but I discovered that the HP-UX
executable was 42 MBytes, quite large. I then tried to run
the "strip" command on it, and it was reduced to 6MBytes,
much better and ddd seemed to run just fine.
So my question/suggestion is:
Shouldn't we add a comment to the ddd build instructions
about running the "strip" command on the ddd executable
for all platforms?
Would there be any disadvantage in doing this?
Having smaller and leaner executables would probably
speed up the launch time of ddd, right?
In a normal development environment we don't really
need to debug ddd itself.
Actually, now that I think of it, I probably should do
the same for gdb-5.0 which I also downloaded, built
and installed for our Unix user community.
Does gdb-5.0 have its own mailing list?
Thanks
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Freddy Jensen, Sr. Computer Scientist, Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA, Ph: (408) 536-2869
Email: address@hidden, URL: http://www.adobe.com
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