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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:49:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Chris Mantoulidis <cmad_x AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

> I read the DJGPP does not support Dynamic Linking... Altough I read
> DJGPP is for does DOS Extenstion (or something)... Shouldn't it have
> Dynamic Linking? I see DJGPP compiled executable files being huge
> compared to Borland C++ compiled ones (for example)...

>  Yeah, why is that exactly? Does anyone know? I compiled (and linked)
> a hello world program... Borland C++ 3.1 produced a 20KB exe file...
> DJGPP 2.03 produced a 230KB exe file... Why!?!?

I've noticed a c++ hello world program is around 200-300k, where as my
c hello world program is 51k.

it's probably linking in the large c++ library. Is Borland c++ 3.1
compliant with the latest c++ standard?

Raymond