Date:	Mon, 7 Jun 1999 09:22:22 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Hello World and File size
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On Sun, 6 Jun 1999 stenstrup AT my-deja DOT com wrote:

> Compiling the source file with gxx -o in the DOS prompt produces
> an EXE-file of 287.456 bytes. Using the -s option or Strip command
> reduces the EXE-file to 139.776 bytes. These sizes are much higher than
> the 80 kb referred to in the FAQ so what am I missing?

The FAQ cites the size of a C program, not a C++ program.  I
understand that you wrote the program in C++ and compiled it with gxx,
which produces a much larger image due to the larger C++ libraries.

> Is there a way to reduce the file size or is it just the way it all
> works?

Why do you even care?  Who cares how much bytes does a trivial hello
world program take on your disk?  The overhead is mostly additive, so
real-life programs get bloated much less, relative to their size.

If you MUST make it smaller, see the rest of section 8.13 which
explains, among other things, that there's a DJGPP-compatible
compressor of executable programs.

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