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From: "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:49:27 +0300
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Subject: Re: gcc 2.8.1 outputs are much larger than gcc 2.7.2 ... why ?? (fwd)
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Date sent:      	Thu, 21 May 1998 16:54:40 +0300 (IDT)
From:           	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:             	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
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Subject:        	Re: gcc 2.8.1 outputs are much larger than gcc 2.7.2 ... why ?? (fwd)

> The message I forwarded claimed that exceptions support adds a lot of 
> local labels, and that's why it bloats the binary.
> 
> > There is one more problem. I did not suceed to get rid of local labels in
> > libstdcxx.a  and  libgpp.a  (I compiled without debugging information).
> 
> Let me see if I understand.  Are you saying that you *can* get rid of 
> local labels in object files, but not in libstdcxx?  How's that possible?
> 
I was not very correct. There was no big changes in object file
sizes for C programs (or also for C++ programs compiled with -fno-exceptions)
but object files from both compiler versions contained references to
local labels. So they of course remained also in libraries.

There is not very much local labels in
a single C++ source file so the increase in size is not so well visible. 
But there is MANY C++ sources in libstdcxx.a so the increase in executable
size is visible much better.