Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 18:36:13 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Subject: Re: Size of a.out
Cc: DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> C++ program             A.OUT size unstripped    A.OUT size stripped
> int x[10000]; main(){}  52269                    44140
> main(){}                15387                     7276
>    (difference)         36882                    36864
>
>   Why does declaring the array `x' add so much size to A.OUT? Surely there is
> a more compact way of telling the loader to set the next 40000 bytes of RAM to

This has popped up some time ago.  As far as I remember, this is a genuine
GCC (mis)feature, not something specific to DJGPP, and it only happens if
the above is compiled as C++ code; if you compile it as C program, you get
what you expect.  I don't know if GCC 2.7 corrected this.

Caveat: my memory sucks when such subtle details are involved, and I don't
really work in C++ anyway, but you can use the search engine at DJGPP Web
server to find the relevant thread in the mailing list archives, at this
URL:
	http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/