Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:31:26 +0200 (METDST)
From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: V2 alpha 980908 -- djdev and djlsr
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > `objcopy', `objdump' and `strip' grow up so much (by more that 120KB!).  
> > Is this because of the `.exe' support?  Robert?
> It might be the extra code in bfd to handle stubbed executables.
>
I think not. The code for the new target are only some static functions,
which setup the correct filepointers in the coff image and the hardcoded
stup (2048 B). I think the main reason is in the increased functionality
of objcopy (strip is in real objcopy). Please compare the sizes for
objcopy.c:

-rw-r--r--   1 rho      mastud     26531 Sep 14  1994 objcopy.252
-rw-r--r--   1 rho      mastud     51073 Jul  4 18:23 objcopy.27

Robert