From: rbs{at}snippets.org
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 tomtorfs{at}village.uunet.be wrote:

>  HA> The GNU compiler for DOS produces 80kb .exe for this test!
>  HA> Is the GNU compiler djgpp a toy thing?
>
> On Linux it takes 4kb, very weird it takes so much under DOS!

The fault is in the libraries... DJGPP was the first PC port of gcc and
the libraries are really terrible! Link in almost anything and most of the
library gets sucked in with it whether you need it or not.

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