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On 05/18/2014 10:38 PM, RayeR wrote:
>> What optimization level did You use? I do not think that size can be reliably compared unless optimization level is -Os (optimize for size).
> Well I checked again and I had used -O2.
> So I retested with -Os and got much more comparable result, still file is a bit bigger from 4.9.0:
> before strip+UPX: 265728B vs 266240B
> after strip+UPX: 120016B vs 120464B
There is almost 10K growth of size of libgcc.a (lib/gcc/djgpp/4.90/libgcc.a for 4.9.0). It is 
linked with any program. I guess that could
explain the growth of size.

Andris