Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 17:09:21 +0200 (MET DST)
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Subject: Re: [WANTED]Old GCC/GXX's
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Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>:
> 
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jeff Williams wrote:
> >
> > > As was also pointed out, 2.7.x has the advantage 
of being rather
> compact:
> > >
> > > gcc2952b.zip unzips to 60 files and 5261021 bytes
> > > gcc2721b.zip unzips to 37 files and 2725475 bytes
> >
> > GCC 2.9X is distributed unstripped.  If your disk 
space is at premioum,
> > you can strip the executables and cut their size in 
half.
>
>
> Yes You can get some space by stripping binaries 
included
> with binary archives of gcc-2.95.2 (Perhaps about 10-
30%). You can get
> even more by compressing them with UPX (or DJP)
>
> The reason why I didn't strip binaries was to provide 
user to possibility
> to use symify on binaries if they crashes due to some 
reason (at least
> user can do that with original binary which crashed, 
instead of forcing us
> to guess which update he/she had)

Unstripped binaries not only occupy more disk space, but
they also need more downloading time (expecially with
slow connections like 14.4. modems it makes big 
difference).

I think it wouldn't bad to have both versions (with
and without symbols) in the download area, so that
it is possible to download the stripped one (ok, this
means you cannot symify it, but this is also true
if you strip it on your hard disk :-)

ciao
  Giacomo

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Giacomo Degli Esposti - pad2369 AT iperbole DOT bologna DOT it