From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Sizes of executables Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 31 X-Trace: /bdhN4U28eL+yN8g0sm0WG4oxqeFuWxWUJNfNwLEQ4hsoFxVEl6BzDa9kAXJZtMprld4kcoXUf0j!Hdkyt/dgscn1CpaJKyO7cyOMEIXhHzYTsLdcqr0kJa+Usqzr3uHf6ELEWAZREydgl0O6D+oBHpAY!OBTLAQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:20:54 GMT Distribution: world Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 20:20:54 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:20:44 GMT, ki99_jan AT k DOT kth DOT se (Jonas Alin) wrote: >Hello >I have some problems in keeping down the sizes of the executables when I >link with djgpp. There just MUST be a way to strip them down strip foo.exe >because the code of the object files before linking is only a >small fraction of the huge exe's I get. The rest is libc.a >There seem to be a whole lot of unused code in the files. Does it look like text at the end of the file? Those are debugging symbols. >Does anyone have an answer to this? I am a rather newbie at djgpp >(I have been using turbo c++ before). UPX makes executables really small and makes them load faster off a floppy. http://upx.tsx.org/ -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html