From: _ Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Why are programs so large? Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:21:31 -0600 Organization: lol Lines: 14 Message-ID: <35D08BAB.E6A8E5BF@pcisys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.76.102.79 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk I compile even the simplest of programs (w/ only 2 statements) & it's 275k! Is it including hundreds of files when I compile (w/ gxx) or what? All I said was: #include int main () { return 0; } Even this program was 274k! Thanks for any help.