From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
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Subject: Re: djgpp on NT?
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 19:43:06 -0500
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Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Ok...Still on NT here, and I'm a newbie...Wanted to ask: Why is it, when I
> comile the simple "Hello World!" program, it outputs a 384k file?

Consider yourself lucky.  On my machine the size is 897k if I compile it
in the morning, and a whopping 933k if I compile it in the afternoon. 
If I change the exclamation mark ("!") to a full stop ("."), the size
will go down to about 400k.

> When I use gxx hello.cpp -o hello.exe
> and the program is:
> #include <iostream.h>
> int main()
> { cout << "Hello World!\n";
>   return 0; }
> it compiles a 384 program...Why? And when I delete teh #include line and
> change cout << to printf ("Hello World!\n");, it still compiles it to
> 113k...isn't this waaaaaaay too huge for that simple program? Is there any
> way to optimize it to make it smaller?
> Thanks...
> 
> >Does it work on NT? Please point me to some FAQ, thanks
> >
> >This is covered in the README.1ST, as well as in section 8.7 of the FAQ
> >(ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/faq210b.zip). You are
> >supposed to use `gxx' instead of `gcc' when linking C++ programs. (That may
> >be `gpp' depending on the GCC version).

Read the FAQ!

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