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Re: sizes of compiled files
- To: help-gcc at gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: sizes of compiled files
- From: Arthur Gold <agold at bga dot com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 23:16:00 -0600
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Inferno wrote:
>
> I was comparing sizes of a simple test c++ program compiled under cygwin
> with the mno-cygwin option and using visual c++. The visual c++
> compiled version was 10 times smaller. The cygwin file was 300000
> bytes. the visual c++ one was 30000. what is going on?
I would suspect that the smaller one was linked dynamically, the larger,
statically.
HTH,
--ag
>
> Inferno
>
> --
> "Life is the whim of several billion cells to be you for a while."
> --Inferno
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