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Old 03-24-2003, 10:07 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally posted by devin
Hey Danish,

I have been using MinGW for a while and also wondered why the executables created were so large. I actually thought that this was because g++ wasn't that great of an optimizing compiler..

Thank you for the tips and link.
Yeah, me, too, but when I saw that many people's compiled files were so much smaller than mine, I decided to investigate. I should have seen it straight off, really -- if you compile without those options, your executible is flooded with a myriad of exception handling and other strings (the last few kb of text in each executible, and a lot of object code in between).

I'll also change the topic of this post so that people won't look over it that would find it helpful.

- Dane
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