Erik> On Tue, 7 Nov 1995, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
>> works. But I wonder: why do people like to link things with -N
>> under Linux/x86 anyway? I see only disadvantages in doing so.
Erik> It gives slightly smaller executables. If I remember the MAGIC
Erik> differences right (going back to my SunOS debugger development
Erik> days..) it's a 4k differnce. For small binaries, that can be
Erik> a big change.
Erik> I don't think it's worth the hassle, but nobody asked me.
Oh, that makes sense. On the Alpha it's actually 8KB.
--david