On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:50:31PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
On Jul 7, 2009, at 2:16 PM, T Ziomek wrote:
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:34:32PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
use the bloatcheck script to do a human readable compare between the two objects. you can find it in the linux kernel.
And/or, 'pahole' (Poke-a-hole) or some of the other "7 Dwarves" tools might help shed light on the differences.
LWN article http://lwn.net/Articles/335942/ (how I heard about them) GIT http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/acme/pahole.git OLS '07 paper http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/acme/7dwarves.pdf or http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2007/melo-Reprint.pdf
Those would help if the data structs had gotten bigger. In this case the code itself is just larger.
Right; a more specific suggestion would be "codiff" in that package. Though maybe you've already extracted the same information in another way.
Tom