Size of generated programs

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199712081626.LAA19462@onsager.chem.mcgill.ca. >you write:
  > 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 
  > significantly larger than those I get with gcc2.  I compile with
  > 
  > -O3 -ffast-math -funroll-loops -malign-*=0  -malign-double -march=pentium
  > (or -m486).
Is this C++ code?

jeff