/ "Robinow, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > 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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