From: okapi AT ezonline DOT com (Matt Gulden)
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Subject: Re: Why does gcc make such big binaries?
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 18:10:54 GMT
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Richard Collins <rcollins AT hermes DOT otago DOT ac DOT nz> wrote:

>I've just started coding in C with gcc.  For my first program I wrote the 
>originsl little program:

>main() {
>	printf("Hello World\n");
>       }

>Which worked well, but I was shocked to see the program was about 80k.

>So I tried:

>Main(){}

>Which compiled to 60k.

>I tried the equivilent programs in turbo pascal, and got 2.4k and 1.6k 
>respectivly.

>I'd greatly appreciate if someone would tell me.  What is all this code 
>that is being generated and is there any way I can cut it down somehow?

>Thanks for your time,

>Richard Collins <rcollins AT hermes DOT otago DOT ac DOT nz>

hello, I had the same question a little while ago, although I'm not
sure exactly why it makes such big exe's, other than something about
it including debug info or something, but I know you can add -s as a
command line parameter when compiling to not add this stuff, or you
can type 
strip program.exe
to do the same thing (I think it's the same)
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