[TUHS] tool (that wnj wrote?) that reduced the data segment size?
Larry McVoy
lm at mcvoy.com
Sat Nov 28 10:03:56 AEST 2015
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:44:58AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> > I've gotten sucked into an embedded system project and they are running
> > out of memory. I have a vague memory of some sort of tool that I think
> > Bill Joy wrote (or maybe he told me about it) that would do some magic
> > processing of all the string constants and somehow it de-dupped the
> > space.
> >
> > Though now that I'm typing this that doesn't seem possible. Does this
> > ring a bell with anyone? I'm sure it was for the PDP 11 port.
>
> I think you're referring to an abomination called "xstrings" (or "xstr"?).
Yup, that's it. Cool, thanks.
> It was described by a colleague of mine as "about as subtle as a car
> crash"; it worked by comparing strings at compilation time, even unto the
> tails of said strings.
>
> Woe betide the user if any string was changed at run time...
I get it. I also get that I have 32KB of RAM and I'm down to my last 1.2KB.
--lm
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