Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Robinow, David" Cc: "'Sturm Volker'" , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: Binary size References: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D767B215B@wilber.adroit.com> From: Andrew Markebo Date: 21 Feb 2002 19:42:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D767B215B@wilber.adroit.com> Message-ID: Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii / "Robinow, David" wrote: | I get similar results. However, the stripped versions are the same size. | Apparently the new compiler includes more debugging information. I haven't | yet found any documentation describing this but I've barely looked. But.. the new version was smaller than the old.. ;-) Weren't there a question in the faq something like "why does MSVC++ do a hello world app that is X bytes large, but cygwin Y bytes??" Can't find it now.. /Andy | | > -----Original Message----- | > From: Sturm Volker [mailto:Volker.Sturm@fthw.siemens.de] | > Subject: WG: Binary size | > > I tried out cygwin on win2k and i compiled gcc3.0.3 - apart from the | > > prefix option - in the standard way. using the gcc 2.95 that came with | > > cygwin and the 3.0.3 gave me a size of some compiled .exe of about 18 k | > > with the old version and 35 k with the new version. the program i | > > compiled for testing was: [...] -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/