From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: version 2.03 binaries size problem Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <39a7068b AT wupperonline DOT de> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 X-Trace: /K49oEsR5RtqFThALwbDkjVCJjXtOth3YRexuBRbo6z3yG6lsaT3scH6pnvK4gXZeFDpS7+1B+eT!mvGCJTSL89PwsNSDa8CN4IzXQoKuTC12EBGiqYtlihmh+4hkA3rQBtalO0ZhqUuj0byB88lH7GQ1!LJU= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:23:21 GMT Distribution: world Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:23:21 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:02:00 +0200, ib AT wupperonline DOT de (Ingo Brueckl) wrote: >I was using djgpp 2.01 (with gpp2721b and bnu27b) for a project written in >C++, which resulted in a binary of approx. (stripped) 177 KByte. > >Today I tried version 2.03 (with gpp2952b and bnu2951b) and got a binary size >of (stripped) 271 KByte, which is a growth of more than 50% for the same >sources! > >Does anyone know why the size increases that much?! What do I get for the >extra 100 KByte? Exception support, template support, amount of debugging info... >Maybe I should try a version 1.x to get an even smaller binary >doing the same job? No. To get a smaller binary, use UPX. http://upx.tsx.org/ -- tiddly-day interj. (used to express agreement.) [American cellphone lingo] This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to prevent the spread of signature viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/