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From: mkemi@jupiter.dk (Morten Kjeldsgaard)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: linking gcc object files on vax/vms
Summary: I get huge .exe files from gcc programs, why?
Keywords: gcc vms
Message-ID: <2686@daimi.dk>
Date: 6 Jul 89 21:54:14 GMT
Expires: 31 Jul 89 22:00:00 GMT
Sender: news@daimi.dk
Reply-To: mok@kemi.aau.dk (Morten Kjeldgaard)
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
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I have just installed gcc version 1.35 on our microvax II. My first program
was (of course) good old "Hello, world". I link my 1 block .OBJ file 
like this:

   $ link hello, sys$library:vaxcrtl/lib

and the resulting executable is 87 blocks!! A bit excessive for the most
minimal program possible! 

Any suggestions as how to decrease the .EXE file size would be most welcome!!

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Morten Kjeldgaard, mok@kemi.aau.dk
Dept. of Chemistry, Aarhus University,
Langelandsgade 140, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark