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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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Subject: Re: Compiler comparisons (object code)
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Date: 12 Dec 90 00:02:04 GMT
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In article <28515@mimsy.umd.edu> jds@cs.umd.edu (James da Silva) writes:
>The most surprising numbers are that for the ANSI compiler versus ACK.  Has
>the code quality gone way down, or is the libary or linker just different?

I suspect these are the a.out sizes.  The large increase with the ANSI
compiler is due to ANSI itself.  It requires all kinds of horrible things,
like the ability to handle %f in printf and heaven-knows-what involving
time.  I am fairly sure most of the increase is due to the larger libraries
required by ANSI.  

John: do nm -ng a.out and see where the program stops and libs start.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)