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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Hm, this sounds like a good opportunity to put 
> BL1 on a laptop, almost any laptop with enough 
> RAM to run it (8M?).  

8mb is sufficient for compiling simple stuff (assuming
you add a swap partition -- say 16mb).

> > With only 24mb RAM, he's going to need a swap partition
> > (say 48mb).  

When I said that I was assuming he would be compiling a kernel 
and/or other complex source code requiring glibc2.  Simple
stuff on libc5 is a completely different story.

> Somehow DJGPP made them into 600K programs but gcc did 
> better.  

The initial object file usually includes debugging code.  Running
"strip" on it removes that code and gives you a smaller binary
(sometimes many, many times smaller).

Cheers,
Steven