Size of generated programs

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 19971208183655.10251@jackalz >you write:
  > On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 11:26:09AM -0500, David Ronis 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!

jeff