Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 10:46:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Tony O'Bryan" <aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Hello world!
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On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Tony O'Bryan wrote:

> This code:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main(void)
>   {
>   printf("Hello world\n");
> 
>   return 0;
>   }
> 
> compiled both with gxx and gcc, then stripped with strip.exe ended up
> the exact same size: 36,504 bytes.

That's because gxx compiles exactly like gcc when the source file
doesn't use any of the C++ classes.  All gxx does is just call gcc
after adding some C++ libraries to the command-line arguments.  But
the linker doesn't link in anything that is not used by the source.