From: Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Why does gcc make such big binaries?
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 16:29:15 -0400
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George Foot wrote:
> 
> leereyno AT imap2 DOT asu DOT edu wrote:
> 
> : GCC under linux makes tiny code.  My mandelbrot program is about 13k
> : long.  The Dos version is over 100k.
> 
> What follows is AFAIK; I don't program Linux, so don't take it as gospel.
> 
> Linux is already in protected mode, so it doesn't need to switch. Also,
> the shell in Linux does most of what the stub does anyway. So in Linux
> this additional code isn't required. Are you using SVGALIB? This is
> outside my experience, but my impression was also that SVGALIB is loaded
> at runtime, so it is not part of the executable either.
Also linux supports shared libraries, which means you don't link all the
code in the executable (something like DLLs). 

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