Re: FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:56:52PM -0600, Juli Mallett wrote:
> * De: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org> [ Data: 2003-04-01 ]
> 	[ Subjecte: Re: FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood ]
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:03:48PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > Anyway, I've committed the fix to release/Makefile that strips
> > > the .comment section out from the BOOTMFS kernel.  If you have
> > > time, you can exploit the effect of this by changing sweaping
> > > over src/sys/ and changing rcsid = "$FreeBSD$" lines to be
> > > __FBSDID() -- that would put these IDs in the .comment section,
> > > thus reducing the size of the stripped kernel by a few more
> > > kilobytes.
> > 
> > Why can't the bits be built with -Dlint to remove rcsid's.
> 
> Because that would change other things, wouldn't it.  Like maybe
> structure sizes or macros which need to actually work?

I didn't see any issues like that with a very curiory look at the
sources.  Are you willing to take a look also?