Huge binaries?

[Gerald Gutierrez]

 > 
 > HUGE, huh?

Yes, fairly huge. The following transcript:

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-gcc- [gerald c]$ g++ -v
Reading specs from /z/opt/gcc-2.95.2/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/pgcc-2.95.2/specs
gcc version pgcc-2.95.2 19991024 (release)
-gcc- [gerald c]$ g++ -c huge.cc
-gcc- [gerald c]$ g++ -o huge huge.o
-gcc- [gerald c]$ ls -l huge*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 gerald   gerald     339488 Nov 19 15:05 huge
-rw-r--r--    1 gerald   gerald        214 Nov 19 15:03 huge.cc
-rw-r--r--    1 gerald   gerald      25464 Nov 19 15:04 huge.o
-gcc- [gerald c]$ 
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is generated by the following source:

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#include <list>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int
main (int ac, char* av[])
{
    list<int> l;

    l.push_back(1);
    l.push_back(2);

    cout << "Size is" << l.size() << '\n';
    
    return 0;
}
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At least it looks like a small program. Why does it generate a
339K executable and a 25K object file? I also remember trying to
compile things like GTK-- and having each object file about 500K in
size. 

Is this "normal"?