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Article #5916Executable Size of Gnu Chess
From: Bruce Momjian
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1991 16:27
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1991 16:27
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I have successfully compiled GNU chess under AT&T 386 Unix SVR3.1 using GNU gcc 1.39. My compliments to the developers. I was wondering why the stripped executable was 1.8 Megs on my machine (that's using shared librarys, curses version gnuchessn). The object file before linking was 1.7 Megs. My assumption is that the program defines an array with initializers, then defines many arrays of these arrays. As 1.8 Megs is a little pricey for my drive ( for a chess program, at least) my workaround was to compress the executable ( to 78k), and then when I want to run it, uncompress it to /usr/tmp and run it, and delete it upon exit. -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue | home: (215)853-3000 root@candle | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 | work: (215)353-9879
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,b40712bac11238b9,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-02 13:25:20 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!gvlf3.gvl.unisys.com!lgnp1.ls.com!candle!root From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian) Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: Executable Size of Gnu Chess Message-ID: <1991Jul2.162757.6403@candle.uucp> Date: 2 Jul 91 16:27:57 GMT Organization: private system Lines: 15