Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760953AbXIURRE (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:17:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755528AbXIURQx (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:16:53 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:40207 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755020AbXIURQw (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:16:52 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Rob Landley Cc: Indan Zupancic , linux-tiny@selenic.com, Michael Opdenacker , CE Linux Developers List , linux kernel Subject: Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:18:41 CDT." <200709201818.42125.rob@landley.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <46F1645D.9050406@am.sony.com> <200709201538.43093.rob@landley.net> <59465.81.207.0.53.1190323573.squirrel@secure.samage.net> <200709201818.42125.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1190394985_2847P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:16:25 -0400 Message-ID: <10228.1190394985@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1317 Lines: 40 --==_Exmh_1190394985_2847P Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Id: <10222.1190394985.1@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:18:41 CDT, Rob Landley said: > Worse, if you feed an absolute path to O= when you build the kernel out of > tree, then it uses absolute paths for all the __FILE__ strings and that makes > kernel BIIIIIG. (Did that by accident a while back.) Too bad there's no way > to keep the __FILE__ strings compressed at runtime and gunzip them as needed > like busybox does with help messages... :) What about something *really* hardcore ugly like: #ifdef __FILE__ #undef __FILE__ #define __FILE__ "" #endif (or similar preprocessor blecherousness) if you want to *really* shrink that binary down? --==_Exmh_1190394985_2847P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFG8/xpcC3lWbTT17ARAnhuAJ4mvOqAGfhMV4IlovK4MPAlIOJiuQCg6l5d 0oEGXRZh8SrfKK+qMXcGUUM= =0tO1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1190394985_2847P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/