From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: version 2.03 binaries size problem
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:02:00 +0200, ib AT wupperonline DOT de (Ingo Brueckl)
wrote:

>I was using djgpp 2.01 (with gpp2721b and bnu27b) for a project written in
>C++, which resulted in a binary of approx. (stripped) 177 KByte.
>
>Today I tried version 2.03 (with gpp2952b and bnu2951b) and got a binary size
>of (stripped) 271 KByte, which is a growth of more than 50% for the same
>sources!
>
>Does anyone know why the size increases that much?! What do I get for the
>extra 100 KByte?

Exception support, template support, amount of debugging info...

>Maybe I should try a version 1.x to get an even smaller binary
>doing the same job?

No.  To get a smaller binary, use UPX.
  http://upx.tsx.org/

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