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rugxulo AT gmail DOT com wrote on 24 Mar 2007 21:41:31 -0700:

# > Why is BinUtils 2.17 so much bigger in .EXE size than 2.16.1?? I'm not
# > trying to be a pedant, I'm just curious why it's 5x the size of the
# > previous version (15 MB vs. 3 MB). Any obvious reason anyone know of?
#
# Well, AFAIK, it's still got symbolic debug info in every .EXE (the
# smallest is READELF.EXE at 588,307 bytes, which is still bigger than
# any .EXE in 2.16.1). Running 'strip *.exe' seems to shrink them down
# to almost the same as 2.16.1's total.

D'oh!  :-S
Sorry 'bout that, I even noticed the increase but as usual was trying to
do too many things at once...

# Gordon, maybe you should repackage / reupload the BNU217B.ZIP since I
# don't think most users will be debugging these, and it'll spare
# everyone's bandwidth in the long run.

Absolutely.  I'm going to end up repackaging most of the stuff I've done
already due to little things like this - it's not too big a deal.

# Oh, and before I forget ... thanks a million for your hard work!   ;-)

No problem - I've been getting good usage out of the DJGPP tools for
some years now; putting some back seems only fair.

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