Re: Where the code goes?

Borek Lupomesky (Borek.Lupomesky@ujep.cz)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:22:11 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, [ISO-8859-1] Tonglu yi wrote:

> I found that the linux kernel source code is about 60MB, but when I
> compiling into into binary, making it into kernel image, the image is
> only about 0.6MB. I don't know how it is so? Does all of the 60MB source
> code become the 0.6 binary code? Why?

Wow, this is a good one!!! The rough answer is: yes, the 60 MB of
source becomes less than 1 MB of binary kernel.

Bye Borek

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