Binaries compiled with GCC 3.2-3 much bigger than with 2.95.3-10 ?

Lapo Luchini lapo@lapo.it
Fri Sep 5 08:14:00 GMT 2003


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Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:

| I just switched to 3.2-3 and was impressed with the following:
|
| Cygwin          -O2     -O2 + -Wl,-s    -Os    -Os + -Wl,-s What's so
| different in 3.2-3 ? On Linux GCC 3.x produced smaller binaries. On
| Cygwin the size doubled.

Did you "strip" the executable produced?
AFAIK gcc3 has much more "debug" infos, but once stripped should be of a
similiar size.

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