[Mingw-users] [mingw - C/C++] RE: Strange size of compiled Programs in c++

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By: adah

Are you sure you used printf instead of iostreams? I cannot repeat your result
without replacing printf with iostream stuff (cout, etc.). And you can reduce
the size by about half with the command-line option "-s" or by an additional
strip command.

As you can see in the MinGW wiki URL Earnie provided, iostreams and related
stuff are complicated and have a constant overhead that seems large for small
programs but insignificant for most real applications.

If you used iostreams and found the result size is small on UNIXs, it was probably
because the C++ library is dynamically linked (which is not the case in MinGW
because of legal difficulties). If you used "g++ -static", your might be surprised
at the result.

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