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Re: to reduce footprint

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: Lin George <george4academic at yahoo dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: 18 Dec 2006 19:58:45 -0800
Subject: Re: to reduce footprint
References: <20061219030906.84697.qmail@web32109.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Lin George <george4academic@yahoo.com> writes:

> I am wondering how to reduce the footprint of a binary build (C/C++) program generated by gcc.
> 
> 1. Any ideas of reduce the footprint of a debug version build?
> 2. Any ideas of reduce the footprint of a release version build?
> 
> I think some linker or compiler options may help, what are they? Any other ideas to reduce footprint?

The obvious place to start is the compiler option -Os, which tells gcc
to optimize for size.

You didn't mention which target you were interested in.  For some
embedded targets, the linker options -n or -N may help.

Ian

References:
- to reduce footprint
  - From: Lin George

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