Binary size

[Andrew Markebo]

/ "Robinow, David" <drobinow@dayton.adroit.com> 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:
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