Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 17:03:07 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Fortran / C compiler precision and code pack
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> From: "Mr. Veli Suorsa" <VJSuorsa AT Surfeu DOT Fi>
> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:21:00 +0200
> 
> >What's wrong with 100KB?  Fortran has a large and complex
> >formatted I/O facility, and you pay for that with the
> >executable size. The bloat is additive, so large real-life
> >programs still get several tens of KBytes added.
> 
> I understand this largeness because of complex formatted I/O facility. But...
> 
> 
> >What is the problem with that, exactly?  How large did you
> >expect the program to be on disk?
> 
> When you use for example Microsoft fortran or pascal compilers, the
> test program exe size is 10-30 KB.

That's because this doesn't include the libraries: these compilers use
DLLs, whereas DJGPP programs are all statically linked.

> I will appreciate Djgpp compiler team, If you know how to optimize
> code to expected size.

It is already optimized if you use -O2 switch when compiling.