From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Sizes of executables
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 20:31:20 +0200
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Jonas Alin wrote:
> 
> 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?

See section 8.14 of the DJGPP FAQ list (v2/faq230b.zip from the same place
you get DJGPP), it explains this.