[haiku-development] Re: GCC 2.95 and the STL

On 2010-03-15 at 02:29:46 [+0100], Michael Crawford <mdcrawford@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > The boot loader is still compiled with -fno-rtti. Though I don't think
> > there's a particularly good reason why that is.
> 
> By not using RTTI, the boot loader is a little smaller than it
> otherwise would be.  That could be important, because of all the weird
> space constraints that the boot loader has to deal with.

I'm not aware of any space constraints other than that the boot loader and 
what is needed for boot strapping the kernel should fit on a 2.88 MB floppy 
disk, but since we don't even zip the thing ATM, the situation seems rather 
relaxed.

CU, Ingo

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