#976792 libwireshark11: library is huge

Package:
src:wireshark
Source:
wireshark
Submitter:
Matt Taggart
Date:
2020-12-08 11:33:14 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#976792#5
Date:
2020-12-07 23:49:50 UTC
From:
To:
Is it normal for libwireshark.so.11.1.8 to be almost 80MB? It's by far
the largest library on my system. The next largest is libLLVM-7.so.1 at
58MB, and then some other toolkit and compiler libs below 50MB and then
it drops off quickly with 99% of system libraries being under 1MB.
strip(1) doesn't seem to reduce it, but maybe there is some bloat in
there that's not supposed to be?

Thanks,
#976792#10
Date:
2020-12-08 11:32:26 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Matt,

It contains dissectors for many protocols and also a good part of the
dissectors' code is autogenerated.
The situation is known by upstream [1] and it may be worth taking a new look.

Cheers,
Balint

[1] https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200911/msg00004.html
#976792#23
Date:
2020-12-08 11:32:26 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Matt,

It contains dissectors for many protocols and also a good part of the
dissectors' code is autogenerated.
The situation is known by upstream [1] and it may be worth taking a new look.

Cheers,
Balint

[1] https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200911/msg00004.html