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Re: [Stupid Question] What does ELF GCC give?

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From: Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:00
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>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Reimers <janr@molienergy.bc.ca> writes:

>>  4. Is ELF-file smaller than a.out (assuming the file is compiled
>> from the same source code, of course) ?

Jan>  no

On Solaris elf files is smaller than the corresponding a.out.
At least it looks so...

The big bone is of course for library developers.
It is for example possible to compile libg++ as a shared library
on SVR4 and other systems using ELF.
That will most definetely save space !!

It is awfully smooth and simple...
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