From:	mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: djgpp exe file size question
Date:	2 May 1997 10:44:12 GMT
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Mike (mike AT itlnet DOT net) wrote:
:    I've recently started using djgpp (yes, I've read the FAQs). It works fine, 
: but I've noticed that my exe file sizes seem to be very large. Much larger than 
: it would seem normal, and larger than the same source file compiled by another 
: compiler.
:    For instance, I recently compiled a short routine using Borland Turbo C++ 
: and it came out to about 15k. I then compiled the same routine with djgpp and 
: it came out to almost 144k!
:    Does anyone know why this might be happening? And, more importantly, how I 
: might be able to decrease my exe file size?

There's a lot of debugging information in the file. Try either running
`strip' on the executable, or adding `-s' to the gcc/gxx command line when
you are linking your program.

However, you are compiling a very short program, and it isn't really fair
to make the comparison on such a piece of code. For an accurate
comparison you should use a longer program.

-- 
George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford

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