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Subject: Re: DJGPP and Borland's compiler generated code size
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> From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 01:41:54 GMT
> 
> A DJGPP 200K binary includes:
>  o code to go into and out of protected mode
>  o code to "glob" filenames passed on the command line
>  o parts of DJGPP libc, which is large because it has to call DOS
>    services through DPMI, it's nearly POSIX compliant, and it's
>    optimized for speed (DOS calls through DPMI are _really_ expensive)
>  o your code, using 32-bit constants
>  o debugging information, which can be removed with strip.exe from
>    djdev203.zip

A minor correction: strip.exe is part of GNU Binutils, not djdev.

> A Borland 40K binary includes:
>  o a much smaller libc, optimized for size

If that's a Windows compiler, most of the libc is not there, its in
DLLs.

>  o your code, using 16-bit constants
>  o debugging information (unless you've turned it off)

IIRC, debugging info is optional in Borland, it requires a
command-line switch.  If you don't use it, there's no debug info.