On Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 22:47 Mike Rejsa via Gcc-help <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, new to gcc, running 32b on an old Win-XP notebook. > > When I compile small utilities (say, treesort or equivalent, just console > output) I get executables that are from 10-16 times larger as with my > previous compiler (a 16b Aztec). Something that compiles to 7-8k with the > Aztec is 100k+ with gcc. Why is this? > > TIA > miker > Strip them afterwards. There's also -Os as an option. >
