From:	Ron House <house AT usq DOT edu DOT au>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	DJGPP EXE file size vs Linux
Date:	Wed, 01 Nov 2000 02:54:27 +0000
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Hi all, I have an app that was originally C, but later I included
classes and made it C++. Since then the file size has blown out hugely,
yet I have only moderate use of templates (although I do use vector
quite a bit) and don't use any C++ I-O, sticking with stdio.h. But most
puzzling, the stripped sizes of the exe under Linux and DJGPP are vastly
different: 950K vs 1.9Mb. Supposedly this is the same compiler
underneath, if I understand correctly. (These sizes should also be
compared with the size of the original program, around 300K and maybe
25% less source code.)

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