7 May
2008
7 May
'08
5:20 p.m.
hp:
I convinced myself that the ~500kbytes for the 'hello' code is 'correct' in version 6.6.1. [ The exact size on the platform mentioned below is 422k. ]
Looks like version 6.8.2 blows up the binary code size significantly --- 3.9Mbytes vs 0.422Mbytes.
Is this a known issue with 6.8.2 ? Is it a specific platform dependent issue --- i.e. does it occur on linux machines ??
That's platform dependent. It means on ghc 6.8.2 wasn't built with split-objs enabled, so it includes a whole bunch of dead code normally stripped out. Consult whoever built the ghc on your platform, to ensure they know how to build with split objects. -- Don