[Mingw-users] [mingw - StupidTechiQuestions] Code size too big

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By: asegura

I compiled an application (7zip's filemanager) with MinGW 4.1 (gcc 3.4.2), using
-Os, and striped it (there's no debug info).
The size of the exe is 725 KB.   (with -O6 I think it was over 900 KB)
The officially distributed exe, compiled with MSVC 6, is 260 KB !!
 
Both have exceptions enabled, as the program uses them (very seldom, though).
Both use the same source files and resources, and link to the almost same DLLs.
 
Is this behavior known? That's more than twice the size!
 
Also exception support tends to make the code grow more than MSVC.
 
What can be done?
Will gcc 4.* make the code smaller?
 

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