From: leereyno AT IMAP2 DOT ASU DOT EDU
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 03:39:31 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Re: Why does gcc make such big binaries?
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On Sun, 25 May 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

That's what I meant.  I should have specified the reason why.  Shared 
libraries are great.  I don't see a reason why shared libraries can't be 
used under dos.  Even windows 3.1 uses them in the form of DLLs.  

Lee