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From: tupdegrove AT agere DOT com (Tim Updegrove)
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Subject: Executable size
Date: 19 Dec 2001 08:18:47 -0800
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Quick background.  I'm using the DJGPP compiler for allocating memory
with physical addresses for use with a PCI based DMA controller.  The
program runs in DOS and everything works fine.  Our only complaint is
the executable size.  A simple "hello world" program is 105kb.

We have heard of other compilers/environments where the executable
size was 40kb with functional user code.  Is there any way (option) to
reduce the size of the stub or whatever?  If this is not possible in
DJGPP, which we like and are familiar with, are there other
compilers/environments that would produce a much smaller DOS
executable?