RE: RES: [Dev-C++] generated .exe is too big

[Ioannis V. <iv...@at...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Per Westermark [mailto:pw...@ia...] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 6:11 AM
> To: Ioannis Vranos
> Cc: Dev-C++ Mailing List
> Subject: RE: RES: [Dev-C++] generated .exe is too big
> 
> 
> _Bool does not increase size of final executable.
> 
> _Complex and (possibly) long long increases the size of the 
> executable -
> but only for executables that needs them, and then it can 
> hardly count. An
> opengl executable is larger than a hello world, but that isn't a
> deficiency of opengl but just that the opengl application 
> solves a harder
> problem.
> 
> Without the _Complex data type, you have to implement - or 
> link through an
> existing library - your own complex math. And by doing that, the
> application has to be larger or the application wouldn't work.
>
>[...]


I did not say that complex type existence is bad (although I do not like to
provide whatever type one can imagine as built in). I posted my theory why
the C99-compliant MINGW 3.x produce larger executables than 2.95.x ones.


I think it is because of the the new built in types and library facilities
(for example printf() got larger to support the new types and changes).




Ioannis Vranos
 
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