From: DougEleveld <deleveld AT my-dejanews DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Hello World and File size
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 20:49:06 +0200
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"Igor I. Tovstopyat-Nelip" wrote:
> 
> I've just tried it for the first time and immediately come up with the
> same question. C and C++ "hello" programs after compiling with djgpp have
> sizes 105 K and 287 K correspondingly. On the other hand when compiled
> with MS Visual C++ compiler their sizes are 28 k and 36 K.
> 
> Are you sure that this big difference really goes away for large real-life
> programs?

Yes it does.  Don't worry about it.

Doug Eleveld