Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:20:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Jonathan Addleman <jaddle AT po-box DOT mcgill DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Size of EXE
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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Jonathan Addleman wrote:

> After writing and compiling a few simple programs with DJGPP, I've
> noticed that the EXE is rather large... 80k! I'm guessing that this is
> due the the compiler attaching all of the libraries and/or headers
> used.

Don't guess (your guess is wrong, btw), look it up in the docs.  The DJGPP
FAQ list (available as v2/faq202b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP)
explains the reasons for this apparent bloat and the ways to make it
smaller in section 8.15 (for starters, add -s to the gcc command line and
observe the program size being slashed considerably; but the FAQ has more
to tell).