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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:56:53 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> > Other changes:
> > -recompiled with latest 2.03 CVS sources instead of 2.02
> 
> Is this the reason that the binary is now 20KB larger?  I didn't know the
> v2.03 library is so much more bloated.  Perhaps you could look into this.

The first binary was compiled with NO_ZIPINFO enabled, that reduces the
size of binary by skipping ZipInfo features, and the second one was 
without that define. NO_ZIPINFO saves about 10 KB in DJP-compressed binary.
Is it worth defining again ?

> What version of Binutils?  Can it be that the new version was built with
> as.exe that places labels into the object files?

Stock 2.8.1 binaries from simtelnet.

Laurynas Biveinis