Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:00:55 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Sender: halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: GCC 2.9x and 3.x produces larger code
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Charles noticed that latest versions of GCC produce code that is about
12% larger than GCC 2.7.2.1 used to generate.  For example, building
Make 3.79.1 with GCC 3.0.1 produces a 232KB stripped executable,
whereas the binary produced by GCC 2.7.2.1 is only 203KB (with the
same library).

Is this a known problem?  Can someone explain the additional bloat, or
at least list the possible reasons for it (i.e. changes in GCC code
generation and/or optimizations)?