From:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Size of EXE
Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:06:07 +0100
Organization:	Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Jonathan Addleman wrote:
> 
> > After writing and compiling a few simple programs with DJGPP, I've
> > noticed that the EXE is rather large... 80k! I'm guessing that this is
> > due the the compiler attaching all of the libraries and/or headers
> > used.
> 
> Don't guess (your guess is wrong, btw), look it up in the docs.  The DJGPP
> FAQ list (available as v2/faq202b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP)
> explains the reasons for this apparent bloat and the ways to make it
> smaller in section 8.15 (for starters, add -s to the gcc command line and
> observe the program size being slashed considerably; but the FAQ has more
> to tell).

When will those guys complaining about the EXE size of a simple
program ever learn?
Check on DJ's sites for his CD-Burner software and find
(stripped) 
getcd.exe  : 44.036 Bytes,  a program to get the ISO 9660 image
                            of a data CD
getda.exe  : 45.572 Bytes,  a program to read Digital Audio
makecd.exe : 62.468 Bytes,  get it back onto CDR.

Those ones contain an ASPI library (!) and seem to be pretty reliable.
So who cares about 80 kB for Hello World?


-- 
Ciao
Tom

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