From:	"Chris La Mantia" <lamantia AT gte DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: How much of the .EXE gets used?
Date:	16 Aug 1997 03:21:50 GMT
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Mike Collins <e-mail DOT address AT end DOT of DOT text> wrote in article
<5t1dtp$oie AT news DOT network DOT com>...
> When I compile a "Hello world" in assembler, it's a LOT smaller than if I

> compile it under DJGPP.I just wondered, how much of that 80,355 byte
program 
> has the *potential* of being executed under given conditions (errors,
etc.) and 
> how much of it is just dormant code that can never be branched to?
> 
> Mike.
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> Actually, even this doesn't stop all of them ...

Much of that space is taken up by debugging symbols, the command line
parsing and filename globbing code, and of course the code to put the
system into protected mode and take it back out again.

See section 8.15 of the DJGPP FAQ for details. 

Regards,

--Chris
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