From:	jaddle AT po-box DOT mcgill DOT ca (Jonathan Addleman)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Size of EXE
Date:	Wed, 15 Jan 1997 02:40:24 GMT
Organization:	McGill University Computing Centre
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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	I'm new to programming, just so you know...

After writing and compiling a few simple programs with DJGPP, I've
noticed that the EXE is rather large... 80k! I'm guessing that this is
due the the compiler attaching all of the libraries and/or headers
used. If so, shouldn't the compiler check to see what code the program
actually needs, and only use that? This program is still quite small,
but a similar program compiled in TP6.0 is just a few bytes. Why is
this?

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