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From: "Liam" <marl AT rmplc DOT co DOT uk>
To: "George Foot" <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>, <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Why does gcc make such big binaries?
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 20:24:39 +0100
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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:
> : Which compiled to 60k.
> : I tried the equivilent programs in turbo pascal, and got 2.4k and 1.6k 
> : respectivly.
> Do the same thing using debug, writing it in assembler; you'll only need
a
> couple of bytes :)
> The point is, there is a certain amount of startup code which gets added
> to all your programs. It performs several functions, including looking
for
> a DPMI host, loading CWSDPMI if it can't find one, globbing the
> command-line, switching to protected mode and starting your actual
program
> code. For these short programs it is pretty useless; you don't need
> protected mode to just do nothing; nor do you need therefore a DPMI
> server, a stub, command-line globbing, etc.
If gcc produces protected mode code, is there a similar program, under GNU,
that
will produce real-mode programs. I bet that the majority of the code that
people on this news group/mailing list write do not NEED a protected mode
compiler. It's fine if you intend to write a program that will take over
the system,
but it's not necessary if you just want to write a small utility, its
pointless.
All protected mode compilers dont produce baisc files that size do they?
Liam