> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 15:42:57 -0500 (EST)
> From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
> 
> [ On Sun, November 23, 1997 at 19:10:34 (GMT), Greg Oster wrote: ]
> > Subject: And just how big can it be? (Sun3/50 kernels..)
> >
> > Ok, so the kernel was 970K or so, which didn't seem to be *too* big, but ok, I 
> > could trim a bit.... So I built a kernel that was only 770K... Same error... 
> > "kernel too large for Sun3/50"...  I tried stripping the kernel -- 690K now... 
> 
> Remember that stripping an object doesn't make its load image any
> smaller.

True, but this case is unusual, because the kernel boot loader
copies the symbols into memory after BSS, and the kernel saves
the symbol table if DDB is included in the configuration.