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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:07:48 +0200
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	(message from Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel on Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:07:48
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Subject: Re: why exe files so big?? 400k!
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> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:07:48 +0600 (LKT)
> From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
> 
> 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? 

It's true that Binutils 2.8.1 had a bug that bloated C++ programs, but
even without that bug, a trivial C++ program will always be larger
than a corresponding trivial C program, because of the additional
overhead of the standard C++ library, which comes on top of the C
library.