Size of generated programs

Myrdraal myrdraal@jackalz.dyn.ml.org
Mon Dec 8 22:52:00 GMT 1997


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



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