Date:	Tue, 22 Nov 1994 16:14:31 -0500 (EST)
From:	Kimberley Burchett <OKRA AT max DOT tiac DOT net>
Subject:	Re: HUGE exe
To:	elio%olivea AT Olivetti DOT Com
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

On Tue, 22 Nov 1994 elio AT pvax DOT Ico DOT Olivetti DOT Com wrote:

> > > it compiles to a binary file of 15617 bytes, with this output from the size
> > > command:                        ^^^
> > > 
> > > text    data    bss     dec     hex
> > > 3052    4096    131240  138388  21c94
> > > 
> > > Are you sure you read correctly the file size? ;-)
> >   quite sure.  check your size output.  then check your exe size again.
> 
> I don't see what I should check again.

  Size said right there that your exe was 138k.  not 15k.  That's what I 
wanted you to check again.  

> Assuming that you really get that big binary, something must be broken on
> your installation. Mixed libraries, mixed go32 versions, or maybe you did
> not install the two maintenance updates of 1.12? 

  I didn't link any libraries.  I did run the maints.

> A simple suggestion: do a gcc -S of your file, and email both the C source
> and the assembly output to the list; this way we could try to understand
> what happens on your installation.

  Okay, here it is.  I erased the original test.cc so I rewrote it.

-----------SOURCE-----------
 
char Map[256][512];
 
main() {
}		// turns out even memset() isn't needed...
 
-----------SIZE-----------

text    data    bss     dec     hex     filename
3008    135168  164     138340  21c64   test

-----------GCC test.cc -S -O2------------

	.file	"test.cc"
gcc2_compiled.:
___gnu_compiled_cplusplus:
.text
	.align 2
.globl _main
_main:
	pushl %ebp
	movl %esp,%ebp
	call ___main
	xorl %eax,%eax
	leave
	ret
.globl _Map
.data
_Map:
	.space 131072

--------------4DOS dir-------------

test           138344  11-22-94  16:06
test.cc            43  11-22-94  16:06
test.exe       145512  11-22-94  16:06
test.s            222  11-22-94  16:07
test.zip        23002  11-21-94  17:45

							Kim

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