From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why does gcc make such big binaries?
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 19:11:41 +0000
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Guilherme Silveira wrote:
> 
> The DJGPP compiler (GCC) needs to have some more kbytes on your program;
> Remember: If you compile with -s you'll not put the comments int the exe
> file (the -s isn't default);

It's the debugging information that is removed by '-s'.  Comments are
never included in object code - they are simply ignored.

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