On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 08:30:36PM +0100, Vincent wrote:
> >That can be misleading.  What does size(1) report?
> # size /netbsd
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 2673904   66792  266964 3007660  2de4ac /netbsd
> 
> # size /netbsd.old
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 2732439   66588  266964 3065991  2ec887 /netbsd.old
> 
> netbsd is the new GCC 4.0 compiled kernel
> netbsd.old is the GCC 3.4 one.

	If you care for a more detailed report, I wrote a script to
perform some basic symbol size analysis on two kernels.  (actually
on any two binaries)  I was using it to compare kernel size growth
over time, but it might be interesting in this case also.  It's at:
http://www.nimenees.com/netbsd/ksize/gen.sh

eric