From: d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk (David Vrabel) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: gcc 2.8.1 outputs are much larger than gcc 2.7.2 ... why ?? Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 07:45:01 GMT Organization: Staffordshire University Lines: 18 Message-ID: <35628954.480044@192.168.1.250> References: <6jr414$qgs$1 AT news DOT itri DOT org DOT tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: www.n-shropshire.ac.uk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk "Tony Kao" wrote: >#include A minor point: Use as the ANSI standard headers no longer have .h at the end. >I found the execution file size is 386560 bytes, which is much bigger than >gcc 2.7.2 outputs. For gcc 2.7.2 the execution file size for the same >program is 187675 bytes. Just a guess: Could it be the exception handling tables? Try -fno-exceptions. David. David Vrabel d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk A poor student (aren't they all) at: North Shropshire College Oswestry, Shropshire, UK