[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #6452: [DriveSetup] Currupts MBR on some disks over 250GB.
- From: "bonefish" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:51:14 -0000
#6452: [DriveSetup] Currupts MBR on some disks over 250GB.
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Reporter: davidsaunders | Owner: stippi
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/DriveSetup | Version: R1/alpha2
Resolution: | Keywords: MBR SATA
Blocked By: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: x86 | Blocking:
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Comment (by bonefish):
Replying to [comment:10 davidsaunders]:
> Ok localization support takes a bit more (less than 2k per language).
Though let us be realistic there needs to be two menus, two buttons, one
four section scrollable list-field, two scroll widgets, and one tittled
window, with no more than 48 strings, per language, each under 31
characters long (many under 8 characters long) many of witch do not need
to be modified for localization.
*sigh* Whatever your frame of reference is, it's obviously not C++ or the
Haiku API. E.g BView and its super classes together have more than 70
virtual methods, so just ''declaring'' a BView subclass costs almost 300
bytes (more for BView subclasses) for the vtable. DriveSetup's `.dynsym`
and `.dynstr` sections alone weigh more than 60 KiB. If you need a
reference how much machine instructions are generated for C++ code, just
use objdump. E.g. DriveSetup's three-line `main()` function is translated
to 98 bytes of machine instructions (gcc 4 build).
For sake of correctness:
- Haiku uses UTF-8 and almost all characters of strings in the DriveSetup
code are single-byte.
- Additional languages don't cause a greater code size -- the language
catalogs are external files.
Anyway, this is a ticket about something else entirely. If you feel you
can program a great DriveSetup in 4 KiB, please do. Post an announcement
on the development mailing list when you're done. Thanks!
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6452#comment:13>
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