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nmn@access.digex.net (No Means No (Xh)) writes:

>   I too have had this problem.  It is definatly not a direct result of 
>having Openwindows or using your given flags, however it might be Sun 
>specific.  I beleive I have cornered the source of this problem.  GCC 
>compiles fine upon initial install, however, after I compiled "GNU 
>Binutils" GCC then seems to bloat every compiled program to an 
>intolerable size.  I am unsure exactly where the problem occurs, however I 
>suspect it is one of the additional libraries that is installed with the 
>"GNU Binutils" distribution.  I have encountered this many times already 
>and I have narrowed it down to GNU Binutils.

Don't install GNU ld for use with Gcc on SPARCs: it isn't able to do
dynamic linking, which accounts for the code bloat.

Casper