Date:	Mon, 5 Jan 1998 10:46:59 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	"Tony O'Bryan" <aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Hello world!
In-Reply-To:	<34B05477.4DEF@nic.smsu.edu>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980105104641.14443H-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Tony O'Bryan wrote:

> This code:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main(void)
>   {
>   printf("Hello world\n");
> 
>   return 0;
>   }
> 
> compiled both with gxx and gcc, then stripped with strip.exe ended up
> the exact same size: 36,504 bytes.

That's because gxx compiles exactly like gcc when the source file
doesn't use any of the C++ classes.  All gxx does is just call gcc
after adding some C++ libraries to the command-line arguments.  But
the linker doesn't link in anything that is not used by the source.

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