From: "A.Appleyard" To: DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 09:43:59 BST Subject: Size of a.out C++ program A.OUT size unstripped A.OUT size stripped int x[10000]; main(){} 52269 44140 main(){} 15387 7276 (difference) 36882 36864 (1) Why does declaring the array `x' add so much to the a.out file? Surely there is a more compact way of