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Subject:	Re: "Hello World !" growed from 361 KB to 730 KB ! What's going on ?
Date:	Tue, 5 Mar 2002 12:46:38 +0200
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> A C program or a C++ program?
C++ program
>
> Did you compile with -g or -gstabs+ or perhaps -ggdb3?
No.

Here´s the following sizes when using those debugging switches:
-g                     777 KB
-gstabs+         855 KB
-ggdb3            914 KB

> What happens if you run `strip' on the program?

Running "strip --strip-unneeded hello.exe" helps. That monstrous "hello.exe"
drops from 730 KB (with optimization's and without debugging info) to 234
KB.

However, it's still quite large for the simplest possible C++ program...

I can understand that there maybe is some extra code to prepare DJGPP
generated programs to run in 32-bit mode in an environment that has allways
been 16-bit (DOS).

However, could it be possible to configure compiler make smaller code for
the Windows "DOS box" ?
I mean, it has all that DPMI stuff ready for running 32-bit programs, right
? (Don't know how stable that stuff is knowing the stability of the software
Microsoft produces :=))

Traveler

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