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From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To: "'Sturm Volker'" <Volker DOT Sturm AT fthw DOT siemens DOT de>,
   "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'"
	 <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Binary size
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:49:40 -0500
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  I get similar results.  However, the stripped versions are the same size.
Apparently the new compiler includes more debugging information.  I haven't
yet found  any documentation describing this but I've barely looked.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sturm Volker [mailto:Volker DOT Sturm AT fthw DOT siemens DOT de]
> Subject: WG: Binary size
> > I tried out cygwin on win2k and i compiled gcc3.0.3 - apart from the
> > prefix option - in the standard way. using the gcc 2.95 that came with
> > cygwin and the 3.0.3 gave me a size of some compiled .exe of about 18 k
> > with the old version and 35 k with the new version. the program i
> > compiled for testing was:
> > 
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > 
> > int main(int argc, char** argv) {
> > 	printf("Hello world!\n");
> > 	return 0;
> > }
> > 
> > I used 'gcc -o myfirst myfirst.cpp' for both compiler versions. why is
> > the big difference in size?
 

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