Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:07:48 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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Subject: Re: why exe files so big?? 400k!
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, The awesome and feared Steamer commented thusly,
> There are a number of things you can do:
> 
>   (a) Use C instead of C++.  (I assume you must be using C++ because
>       I can't imagine how you get such huge executables using C.)

Hmm..I thought that this problem only occured with Binutils 2.81? 

About getting large executables using C..well just have a look at any
program that uses the Allegro library.......

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Grendel

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