From:	Luke Roth <roth AT cse DOT psu DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Myballs three times bigger when I compile?
Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:11:06 -0500
Organization:	Deparment of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
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	I have one idea - By default, DJGPP includes debugging information
in the executable.  Running the "strip" program (included with DJGPP) on
the executable should shrink it wuite a bit.

	Luke

On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Igor Blanco wrote:

> I obtained the game and the source code of the game MyBalls have drop.
> The binary I got took less than 300,000bytes but when I recompile it
> takes over 600,000bytes and it works the same? Any idea? Maybe is
> because of the difference in djgpp versions? How should I compile so
> it does not grow so much?
> Thanks.
> IGORBG AT santandersupernet DOT com
> Sorry for the last out of subject article.
> 
> 
> 

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