From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: why exe files so big?? 400k!
Date: 30 Jun 2000 18:32:32 -0700
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dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer) writes:

> Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> 
> > >   (a) Use C instead of C++.  (I assume you must be using C++ because
> > >       I can't imagine how you get such huge executables using C.)
> > 
> > Hmm..I thought that this problem only occured with Binutils 2.81? 
> 
> Well, it happens to me even with 2.10 (which, due to peculiar
> numbering conventions, is later than 2.81).  Try it yourself:

It's really 2.8.1, but DOS doesn't like multiple dots in a filename,
so the second one was removed.


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Nate Eldredge
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