From: Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire DOT fernandes AT iname DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Compiled programs are HUGE!
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 23:27:13 +0800
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>       So anyway, when I compile this insane (but incredibly short >source-code) I get 200k worth of EXE.
> When using PASCAL to do an equvilent thing this would take up 3k, using BC++ v3.0 this would take up 30k.
> But 200k is outragous! What is going on?
> ems with DJGPP.

The problem is just that DJGPP has to do some jobs in place of 16 bits
DOS  :(
In other platform as Risc PC, a hello.c file just take ~500 bytes once
compiled with GCC :)

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