From: malcolm AT clear DOT net DOT nz (Malcolm Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Large .exe size
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 22:10:52 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>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.

Is there any non-standard way of reducing the startup code overhead?
(ie after declaring null globbing funcs etc.) I am interested in
making a certain exe as small as humanely possible, and was wondering
what parts of the library source to attack for example.

Malcolm