Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:51:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Erwann Corvellec <ecorvell AT irisa DOT fr>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: ** Comparison between DJGPP V2 & WATCOM C V10 **


On 1 Aug 1995, Erwann Corvellec wrote:

>    Second, I am VERY distappointed by the difference of size between gcc and
>  wcc386... :(

The DJGPP start-up code does more than that of Watcom: it includes 
Unix-like file globbing, 3 methods of long command-line support and 
environment variables from a file.  If you don't need any of these, you 
can change the start-up code (v2.0 has provisions to do this without 
changing source code).

>    Why are there fonts in a.exe generated by gcc ????????

There shouldn't be.  How do you know there are fonts there?

> gcc -O1 a.cpp -lgpp
> strip --strip-all a.out
> coff2exe a.out
> A.EXE SIZE=100352 bytes
> 
> wpp386 -os a.cpp
> wlink file a
> A.EXE SIZE=32810 bytes
> 
>    100352 bytes for this little piece of code (150Ko with all symbols !) !

This is an additive overhead, not a multiplicative one, so in a realistic 
application (which does a bit more than just Hello world) the overhead 
in percents is much smaller.