thakur@ZERKALO.HARVARD.EDU ("Manavendra K. Thakur") (12/19/90)
I decided to compile debugged versions of the X libraries, and much to my suprise, libX11_d.a came out to be over 9 MB (that's megabytes) long! Here are the actual numbers for comparison: -rw-r--r-- 1 root 268982 Dec 18 20:07 libX11.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root 9345410 Dec 18 20:08 libX11_d.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root 312878 Dec 18 20:08 libXt.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2972230 Dec 18 20:08 libXt_d.a Note how libXt.a is larger than libX11.a by 44 kilobytes. Note how libXt_d.a *smaller* than libX11_d.a by 6.4 megabytes. Most likely, this is because Xlib is composed of five times as many object files than the Xt library (249 vs. 46). This must be why the debugged libraries are not compiled by default! So I'm wondering: is there any chance that the X Consortium folks would consider collapsing Xlib source files into a smaller number of larger sized files? That way, at least the debugged version of the library won't be so ridiculously large. But given that Xlib is such a behemoth already, is my wish for fewer source files a pipe dream? Oh yeah, I compiled these libraries with cc on a Sun 4 running SunOS 4.1.1. Manavendra K. Thakur Internet: thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu System Manager, High Energy Division BITNET: thakur@cfa.BITNET Harvard-Smithsonian Center for DECNET: CFA::thakur Astrophysics UUCP: ...!uunet!mit-eddie!thakur
kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley ) (12/20/90)
In article <9012190459.AA05744@zerkalo.harvard.edu> thakur@ZERKALO.HARVARD.EDU ("Manavendra K. Thakur") writes: > >I decided to compile debugged versions of the X libraries, and much to >Here are the actual numbers for comparison: > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root 268982 Dec 18 20:07 libX11.a >-rw-r--r-- 1 root 9345410 Dec 18 20:08 libX11_d.a > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root 312878 Dec 18 20:08 libXt.a >-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2972230 Dec 18 20:08 libXt_d.a > and Motif: -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 1168722 Nov 21 19:49 libXm.a -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 7284206 Nov 21 19:49 libXm_d.a and a simple 5 widget program linked with the debug libraries so I could find a memory leak (fun fun fun): -rwxrwxr-x 1 kaleb 3530752 Dec 19 08:12 main2 These numbers are under SunOS also, but if the sizes are indicative of anything, it's not something I'd want to try on a 4MB 386 box. -- Kaleb Keithley Jet Propulsion Labs kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov Offensive quote coming soon to a .signature file near you.
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (12/20/90)
So I'm wondering: is there any chance that the X Consortium folks
would consider collapsing Xlib source files into a smaller number of
larger sized files?
Nope. You are essentially asking for a configuration that would make
non-shared-library implementations result in larger executables in the
normal case, because of the "wonderful" design of unix linkers.