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Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:33:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Daniel Borca <dborca AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: DJGPP ELF
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--- Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT ltu DOT se> wrote:

> According to Daniel Borca:
> > Some points for switching to ELF were:
> > 1. reduce the size of executables
> 
> Just how is that achieved? And do you have any numbers?
> 

COFF: Hello World C++ is about 400kb
ELF : Hello World C++ is about 16kb (PIE) - 20kb (non-PIE)
      plus 1MB the shared libraries (libc, libm, libgcc, libstdc++)

So, if you have more than 3 Hello World C++ COFF EXEs (not that I
would know any reason for having so many Hello World programs),
you already save space.

Another example, COFF programs compiled with DJGPP Mesa are >2MB
each.  I can't remember how large were COFF Allegro demos... but
you can always check yourself.


Regards,
Daniel Borca

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