Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 13:18:29 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Large .exe size
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On 1 Mar 1997, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> Regarding the "stub and shit": this bloats your exe by 40-50K

The stub is only 2KB-long.  The other overhead (the startup code) is
only about 16K-30K (depending on what parts of the startup code you
disable, see section 8.15 of the DJGPP FAQ list for more about this).
So you should never get a bloat as large as 40-50K.