Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:41:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: Dieter Demerre <ext DOT dieter DOT demerre AT siemens DOT be>
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Subject: Re: EXE file size (sorry if this is a duplicate)
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, David Grant wrote:

> How can I make my EXE files smaller.  I just made a Hello World program and
> it is like 200,000 bytes!

You can use some (ancient) run-time compression.  Don't know by heart now
but was based on sth like zip with a run-time decompression.

> I tried using gcc instead, but it didn't like my cout statement for some
> reason.  How can I do a printf instead?  It didn't seem to like that either.

the cout and cin streams and << (or for that matter >>) operators are
*strictly* c++.  To obtain the same (well known program) using
C-statements, do it like this:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
  printf("Hello World\n"); /* or fprintf(stdout,"Hello World\n");
  return 0;
}

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