Re: compiled program too big

["Andrea 'fwyzard' Bocci" <fwyzard-gcc at libero dot it>]

At 01.01 30/06/2003 -0700, Insanely Great wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I am complete newbie to the world of programming.
> Write my first console program which is around 11KB.
> basically it takes a string as a first parameter and
> does some stupid processing to it.
>
> Works both in VC++ 6.0 in windows and gcc in RH Linux
> 7.2
>
> The problem is when I comile with VC++ in Release mode
> the output exe is 44KB.
>
> when i comile the same program in linux using gcc -
>
> gcc -O2 First.cpp
>
> the resulting program is 126KB....why? am i missing
> some option.
>
> is there any option to tell gcc to compile it in
> something like RELEASE MODE in VC++.
>
> sorry for my ignorance and thanks in advance.
>
> insane

Try stripping the output executabled:

strip executable_file

This should remove all the sybols from the exe - it halved the size of a 
small test program in my cygwin environment, ven when no -g was specified 
on command line.

.fwyzard.