Re: [iPAQ] 3950/3970

Cross is smaller: our cross chain is configured for strongarm.

Unfortunatly, the debian gcc package builds the compiler configuration
into itself, so it is painful to fix (requiring a rebuild of the toolchain).
Ughh...
                                - Jim

> From: bob lees <bob@diamond.demon.co.uk>
> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:21:27 +0100
> To: <Jim.Gettys@hp.com>
> Cc: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [iPAQ] 3950/3970
> -----
> Jim
>
> Which direction? ie was the native or cross build smaller?
>
> Bob
>
> On Friday 12 Jul 2002 4:29 pm, Jim.Gettys@hp.com wrote:
> > I once compared the size of X built native (armv3) vs. our cross toolchain
> > (arm4l), and got a 15% size difference.
> >
> > The issue is that when running out of flash, that 15% on all your overhead
> > (kernel, libc, whatever base windowing infrastructure you choose)
> > translates to large changes in available space for applications....
> >
> > So we're alot more sensitive to this than when running out of disk or
> > large external flash...
> > - Jim

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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
Jim.Gettys@hp.com