Size of crosscompiled exectuable

[Simon Marlow]

On 25/01/13 16:35, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 25/01/13 15:51, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>> Somebody claiming to be Simon Marlow wrote:
>>> On 25/01/13 13:58, Nathan Hüsken wrote:
>>>> A simple hello world application has 1Mb in by 64 bit ubunut machine.
>>>> When I stript it, is has about 750kb.
>>>> When I build a cross compiler for android (arm), the executable has a
>>>> asize of about 10MB, stripped about 5MB.
>>>>
>>>> That is huge, five times the size on my linux sysem.
>>>
>>> Not sure what you mean by "five times the size on my linux system".
>>> What is 5 times larger than what?
>>
>> He's saying that the size of the android executable (made by his cross
>> compiler) is five time the sive of the equivalent Ubuntu executable
>> (made by, I assume, his system's GHC).
>>
>> The problem is not the size, but the size ratio.
>
> Ah, I see.  Yes, my executables are a similar size.  I'm not sure why,
> I'll try to look into it.

It's just the lack of SPLIT_OBJS.  Also, unregisterised accounts for a 
factor of 1.5 or so.

Incidentally, I now have a registerised cross-compiler for Raspberry Pi 
compiling a working hello world :)  (LLVM 3.0, GHC HEAD)

GhcStage2HcOpts    = -O0 -fllvm -pgmlc llc-3.0 -pgmlo opt-3.0 -optlc 
-mtriple=arm-linux-gnueabihf -optlc -mattr=+vfp2 -optlc -float-abi=hard
GhcLibHcOpts       = -O -fllvm -pgmlc llc-3.0 -pgmlo opt-3.0 -optlc 
-mtriple=arm-linux-gnueabihf -optlc -mattr=+vfp2 -optlc -float-abi=hard
GhcRtsHcOpts      += -fllvm -pgmlc llc-3.0 -pgmlo opt-3.0 -optlc 
-mtriple=arm-linux-gnueabihf -optlc -mattr=+vfp2 -optlc -float-abi=hard

Nice work everyone.

Cheers,
	Simon