[cfe-dev] linking and stripping compared to GCC 4.4

[Luc Bourhis]

Thanks for your answer.

> Are there functions in the Clang-compiled demo.so that are significantly larger than their GCC-compiled counterparts?

Could you give me a few pointers as to how I would find those size? I would then be more than happy to do a thorough investigation.

> Also, for code size, -O2 or -Os are generally a better bet than -O3.

clang++ -Os and -O3 gives nearly the same size for the .o file here. The problem appears when clang++ links that .o to make the .so
It's is linking against a dylib Boost.Python library by the by. But I may be missing your point completely here.

Luc