From:	Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject:	Re: Sizes of executables
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:20:44 GMT, ki99_jan AT k DOT kth DOT se (Jonas Alin)
wrote:

>Hello 
>I have some problems in keeping down the sizes of the executables when I 
>link with djgpp. There just MUST be a way to strip them down

strip foo.exe

>because the code of the object files before linking is only a
>small fraction of the huge exe's I get.

The rest is libc.a

>There seem to be a whole lot of unused code in the files.

Does it look like text at the end of the file?  Those are debugging
symbols.

>Does anyone have an answer to this? I am a rather newbie at djgpp 
>(I have been using turbo c++ before).

UPX makes executables really small and makes them load faster off a
floppy.
  http://upx.tsx.org/

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