From: aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu (Tony O'Bryan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Size of .exe Why so BIG???
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 05:08:32 GMT
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On Fri, 21 Feb 1997 22:50:08 GMT, fwec AT juno DOT com (Mark T Logan) wrote:

>You can also use 'strip' one of the GNU binutils.  I've never used it,
>but I think it does 
>something like removing unnecessary data from the .exe.  I could be wrong
>about this.

I used strip on an 80K "Hello World" program, which trimmed it down to 30K.
That's pretty good when considering everything gcc has to link into the
executable.