compiled program too big

[Insanely Great]

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

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