[Mingw-users] code bloat?

[Steve B. <st...@pr...>]

I have just been transferring one of our standard systems from
BSD/OS to NetBSD, building Win32 executables like this:

gcc -fwritable-strings -c  globals.c specials.c main.c random.c
ar cr libnewscir.a globals.o specials.o main.o random.o
ranlib libnewscir.a
gcc -fwritable-strings -c tmp.$1.c
dlltool -e exports.o --export-all-symbols tmp.$1.o globals.o specials.o main.o random.o
gcc -o $1.exe tmp.$1.o globals.o specials.o main.o random.o exports.o -L./ -lkernel32

The script is identical, apart from the paths to mingw (omitted
above).

But the NetBSD-generated versions seem to have an additional
170 Kbytes of overhead in the .exe, which isn't much these days I
suppose, but when the BSD/OS-generated version is 45 Kbytes and
the NetBSD-generated version is 220 Kbytes it's slightly
jaw-dropping.

Has there been a general upwards creep in executable code size
that I just haven't noticed before?

-- 
Steve Blinkhorn <st...@pr...>