Re: [Mingw-users] Well-optimizing compiler and a weirdness in themailing list

[Brian D. <br...@de...>]

Cornelius Riemenschneider wrote:

> 2nd: The reason i'm writing this: I thought of gcc as an optimizing compiler. But, the source at the end of the mail compiles to a winapp >800KB. Doing the same with MSVC++ 6 results in a 60KB app. COmpiling options for g++: -O0 -Os -pedantic -w -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0
>  the -O0 is caused by eclipse...

This is not a fair comparison at all for C++.  g++ is statically linking
its C++ runtime (libstdc++) whereas MSVC++ uses a shared library
MSVCP{50,60,70,71}.DLL for its C++ runtime.  You will only get a fair
comparison if you use shared libstdc++ (-lstdc++_s).

Brian