Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:19:12 +1100
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Simple == Big
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To: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On 10 Oct 97 at 13:50, George Foot wrote:

> Myknees (myknees AT aol DOT com) wrote:
> : Now here's the kicker.  I also added the -O3 option, and the
> resulting : executable was still the same size.  Does this mean that
> all simple : programs compiled with djgpp will always be
> inordinately large?

[snip]

> The real problem, though, is that your program isn't a sensible test
> of the compiler's code generation. It's not particularly useful, it
> doesn't benefit at all from running in protected mode, and some of
> the program is no doubt simply dead weight. When you write longer
> programs, though, they will not increase in size so quickly; most of
> your code at present is one-off information that is included in
> every executable.

If you want a good example of djgpp code generation, check out my 
kernel (http://www.abwillms.demon.co.uk/prog (Bill Currie's PC 
Bootable Kernel)) It does a fair bit (serial ports, keyboard, ide, 
fdc, xmm, screen (text, 80x60) ...) and the code is < 38k. My wip 
version is 34k code and 43k data (mostly 0's).

> Bottom line: If you want to improve the library_code:program_code
> ratio of your programs, write more program code and stop worrying
> about it :)

Agreed.

> 
> Also, you might like to get hold of a copy of DJP, the executable
> file compresser for djgpp programs. It's in a zip calls mlp???b.zip
> somewhere on the FTP sites (sorry, I can't give an exact reference
> ATM; no doubt the FAQ points to it).

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2misc/mlp105b.zip

and

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2misc/mlp105s.zip
Bill
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