From:	eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: EXE files too big!
Date:	27 Mar 2000 07:45:37 GMT
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Krogg (krogg DOT no DOT to DOT spam AT gtcom DOT net) wrote:
: I am gonna try one more thing....
: Ok i tried the -s switch and the -O2 switch AND upx.
: ended up with..........................119268 bytes

: Now,that IS a little better...Now someone is gonna
: tell me that the -O2 switch is some kind of bad thing
: that i will wish i hadnt ever heard of......

Au contraire. If your program isn't very special, it's very much
recommended that you do compile with "-O2". It's insane not to use at
least "-O"; if you don't believe me, look at the code generated by gcc
without "-O".


Right,

							MartinS

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