From: root@jacob.remcomp.fr (root) Subject: Size of smallest program 4 Dec 1996 13:03:29 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Content-Type: text Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Content-Length: 1121 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com I have (at last) produced a fairly stable version of lcc for win-32. I have been optimizing linker/compiler and other tools for size, and I think I have reached the bottom: #include main(){printf("Hello world\n");} produces an executable of only 3616 bytes!! ..text: 1024 (code) ..rdata: 512 ..data: 512 ..idata: 512 (import tables for the crtdll.dll library) ---- 2560 headers: (section table, file header, Data directory) 1024 ---- 3584 bytes. It seems I loose 32 bytes in an alignment somewhere... Could some kind soul compile (and strip) the same 'program' for gcc to have some figures to compare with? It would be nice to have the details if possible. Thanks in advance for your cooperation. P.S. To give you an idea, here are the figures for MS Developer's Studio (MSVC 4.0) HELLO.EXE: 17408 bytes ..text: 10042 ..rdata: 512 ..data: 3584 ..idata: 1024 ..reloc: 1024 16186 Headers: 1024 17210 (MSVC rounds up somewhere 198 bytes) -- Jacob Navia Logiciels/Informatique 41 rue Maurice Ravel Tel 01 48.23.51.44 93430 Villetaneuse Fax 01 48.23.95.39 France - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".