Re: OMAGIC & initial user-process limit

Erik Troan (ewt@redhat.com)
Tue, 7 Nov 1995 10:27:19 -0500 (EST)


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.

It gives slightly smaller executables. If I remember the MAGIC differences
right (going back to my SunOS debugger development days..) it's a 4k differnce.
For small binaries, that can be a big change.

I don't think it's worth the hassle, but nobody asked me.

Erik

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