Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:06:54 -0400
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> Does DJGPP really compile code into machine code?

Yes.

> I compile a simple "Hello World!" program, and it's 100k!

The FAQ tells you why.

> And once I opened up an executable to find some uncompiled asm. code in it!

This is a bug in DOS, not djgpp.  If you don't explicitly write data
to the file, DOS erroneously uses whatever happens to be there instead
of filling it with zeros or something.