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Message-ID: <10228.1190394985@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:16:25 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:	Indan Zupancic <indan@....nu>, linux-tiny@...enic.com,
	Michael Opdenacker <michael@...e-electrons.com>,
	CE Linux Developers List <celinux-dev@...e.celinuxforum.org>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:18:41 CDT, Rob Landley said:

> Worse, if you feed an absolute path to O= when you build the kernel out of 
> tree, then it uses absolute paths for all the __FILE__ strings and that makes
> kernel BIIIIIG.  (Did that by accident a while back.)  Too bad there's no way
> to keep the __FILE__ strings compressed at runtime and gunzip them as needed 
> like busybox does with help messages... :)

What about something *really* hardcore ugly like:

#ifdef __FILE__
#undef __FILE__
#define __FILE__ ""
#endif

(or similar preprocessor blecherousness) if you want to *really* shrink
that binary down?

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