Binary size

[Robinow, David]

  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.

> -----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:
> > 
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > 
> > int main(int argc, char** argv) {
> > 	printf("Hello world!\n");
> > 	return 0;
> > }
> > 
> > I used 'gcc -o myfirst myfirst.cpp' for both compiler versions. why is
> > the big difference in size?
 

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