From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: Sizes of executables
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:25:52 GMT
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:11:40 +0300, "Dmitry Shkarin"
<dmitry DOT shkarin AT mtu-net DOT ru> wrote:

>                         Hi, All!
>>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 because the
>>code of the object files before linking is only a small fraction of the
>>huge exe's I get. There seem to be a whole lot of unused code in the
>>files. Does anyone have an answer to this? I am a rather newbie at djgpp
>>(I have been using turbo c++ before).
>    I'm new DGJPP user too and I have the same problem: sizes of small
>executables(~100KB, I did not ported larger apps yet) are more than twice
>larger then for other compilers. I had tried to remove exception code &
>rtti(-fno-exceptions & -fno-rtti), but
>it does not matter.
>    Why is it?

1. Each DJGPP program has a mini-extender built in that goes to 32-bit
protected mode.  This extender takes space.
2. You forgot to strip out debugging information.
    strip foo.exe
3. You forgot to compress the EXE (also strips it.)
    http://upx.tsx.org/

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