From: "Geo" 

"Gregg N"  wrote in message
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> The more useful test is how much additional space is taken up
incrementally
> as you add new code. The baseline size doesn't tell you much except that
the
> I/O facility takes about 190k. This is not a function so much of the
> language as it is of the granularity of the library that gets linked in.

I kinda figured it was the includes (what else could it be).

> When I compiled your sample with /MD the executable was only 3,584 bytes.
> This tells the compiler not to statically link the runtime library, but to
> use msvcrt dll instead. I also specified /O1 which is optimize for size.

Oh cool, now this is interesting, these switches are a part of the standard
vc++ compiler options?

Geo.

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