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Re: Size of generated programs
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 11:39:25PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
Hi,
> > > I've had egcs up and running for a few days now, and have encountered no
> > > problems with the programs I've compiled (other than the ones I make for
> > > myself). One thing I've noticed is that the stripped executables are
> > > [etc]
> > If it's just plain C, try compiling with -fno-exceptions, that makes the
> > binary rather smaller.
> This indicates a bug since C should not be using exception handling by
> default!
My apologies, I just tried it, and it does seem to be off be default. Wasn't
it on though in earlier versions?
-Myrdraal