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From: j4139208 AT rrz DOT Uni-Koeln DOT DE (Martin Krieger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Why are they so fat?
Date: 7 Jun 1996 21:52:21 GMT
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
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Hi!

#include <iostream.h>
int main()
{
  cout << "Hallo, Welt!\n";
}

compiles to 

TEST.EXE   158.101   07.06.96 23:21

Why is this nice little program so extremly huge? Is there a way to shrink
it? (Any plans for optimizing linkers like that one Borland Pascal has?)

Greetings from Cologne, Germany
  Martin