Date:	Wed, 23 Nov 94 01:05:33 -0500
From:	dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To:	OKRA AT max DOT tiac DOT net
Cc:	elio%olivea AT Olivetti DOT Com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: HUGE exe

> > > > 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.  

The "dec" field is the RUNTIME size of the image.  The size of the
data in the disk file is text+data.  If the disk image is bigger than
this, it's probably symbols - use strip to reduce the size to
text+data.

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