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Subject: Re: why exe files so big?? 400k!
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:25:03 GMT
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Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> >   (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? 

Well, it happens to me even with 2.10 (which, due to peculiar
numbering conventions, is later than 2.81).  Try it yourself:
the following should compile to about 271KB (before stripping
or compressing) compared to about 92KB for an equivalent C
program:

// Hello World for C++
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(void)
{
    cout << "Hello, world!" << endl;
    return 0;
}

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

This is true.  But the original poster mentioned that one of his 4OOKB
programs just adds two numbers and displays the result.  I assumed he
hadn't felt the need for add-on libraries to accomplish this.

S.