Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 13:32:46 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: leereyno AT imap2 DOT asu DOT edu
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Why does gcc make such big binaries?
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On 25 May 1997 leereyno AT imap2 DOT asu DOT edu wrote:

> GCC under linux makes tiny code.  My mandelbrot program is about 13k 
> long.  The Dos version is over 100k.

That's really irrelevant, since Linux uses shared libraries (which are 
unsupported on MS-DOS), so the Linux executable doesn't include the 
library functions you call.