From: jaddle AT po-box DOT mcgill DOT ca (Jonathan Addleman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Size of EXE
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 02:41:49 GMT
Organization: McGill University Computing Centre
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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 02:40:24 GMT, jaddle AT po-box DOT mcgill DOT ca (Jonathan
Addleman) wrote:

>	I'm new to programming, just so you know...
>
>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. If so, shouldn't the compiler check to see what code the program
>actually needs, and only use that? This program is still quite small,
>but a similar program compiled in TP6.0 is just a few bytes. Why is
>this?
Sorry about repeating some of what's already been said in here... I
missed them! (whap in my head....)