On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:18:41 CDT, Rob Landley said:

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> Worse, if you feed an absolute path to O= when you build the kernel out of 
> tree, then it uses absolute paths for all the __FILE__ strings and that makes
> kernel BIIIIIG.  (Did that by accident a while back.)  Too bad there's no way
> to keep the __FILE__ strings compressed at runtime and gunzip them as needed 
> like busybox does with help messages... :)

What about something *really* hardcore ugly like:

#ifdef __FILE__
#undef __FILE__
#define __FILE__ ""
#endif

(or similar preprocessor blecherousness) if you want to *really* shrink
that binary down?