On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 05:33:42PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Hi - > > > [...] > > My understanding of the benefit of separate modules is that we don't > > need to link all backend modules into every elfutils binary. I did some > > measurements to that end: > > > > Dynamic backends (status quo): > > 44K ./libasm/libasm.so > > 380K ./libdw/libdw.so > > 120K ./libelf/libelf.so > > 56K ./src/objdump > > > > Static backends (after this series): > > 44K ./libasm/libasm.so > > 668K ./libdw/libdw.so > > 120K ./libelf/libelf.so > > 348K ./src/objdump > > Assuming a dynamically linked objdump would be the same size as > before, and that the libebl-* contents would only bloat libdw.so, > and only by 300K, IMHO we should just go for it.
This is actually with dynamically linked binaries -- the size increase is because we link libebl.a directly into all of the binaries in addition to libdw.so: objdump_LDADD = $(libasm) $(libebl) $(libdw) $(libelf) $(libeu) $(argp_LDADD)
