Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 11:49:39 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Archee/CoNTRACT <01dsolt AT vpg DOT hu>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP executables are quite big.
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Archee/CoNTRACT wrote:

> DJGPP produces quite big executables.
> 
> Other linkers only include the procedures and variables are used.
> If I compille my program with WATCOM C or VISUAL C, it is quite smalled.

Please see the DJGPP FAQ list (v2/faq210b.zip from the same place you get 
DJGPP), section 8.15.  It explains what to do about that.  (In 99% of the 
cases, people just forget to use the -s switch when linking.  Did you?).

> I think it is not a good way to simply convert a.out to exe.

Why?  Converting to .exe only adds a 2KB stub, which is hardly a lot.

> I think we have to make a linker for coff objects.

The problem is that DOS doesn't know how to run COFF executables.  That's 
one of the problems why we need the 2KB stub.