SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:37:45PM -0400, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote: IMHO thats comparing apples with oranges. First, it looks like you forgot to strip the binary. Second, statically compiled stuff is the exception, not the norm on modern (and therefore OT) systems. als@bruckner:/tmp/als/hello > l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 als users 81 Aug 23 11:47 hello.c als@bruckner:/tmp/als/hello > cat hello.c #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("Hello world!\n"); return 0; } als@bruckner:/tmp/als/hello > gcc -static -o hello hello.c als@bruckner:/tmp/als/hello > l total 1428 -rwxr-xr-x 1 als users 1451669 Aug 23 11:49 hello -rw-r--r-- 1 als users 81 Aug 23 11:47 hello.c als@bruckner:/tmp/als/hello > strip hello als@bruckner:/tmp/als/hello > l total 352 -rwxr-xr-x 1 als users 352140 Aug 23 11:49 hello -rw-r--r-- 1 als users 81 Aug 23 11:47 hello.c als@bruckner:/tmp/als/hello > gcc -o hello hello.c als@bruckner:/tmp/als/hello > l total 20 -rwxr-xr-x 1 als users 13336 Aug 23 11:51 hello -rw-r--r-- 1 als users 81 Aug 23 11:47 hello.c als@bruckner:/tmp/als/hello > strip hello als@bruckner:/tmp/als/hello > l total 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 als users 3016 Aug 23 11:51 hello -rw-r--r-- 1 als users 81 Aug 23 11:47 hello.c The unstripped binary contains tons of symbol table information that is only needed for debugging. And on modern UNIX system the only binaries compiled statically (if any) are the binaries needed for emergency rescue (when you can't rely on having /lib in usable state). Oh, and maybe some commercial stuff linking against funny libraries (long time standard for motif stuff to avoid runtime licenses). Regards, Alex. -- We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being increasingly capable. -- Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs