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From: pjr@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Peter Rayner)
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Subject: growth in size from sunfortran 1.2 to 1.3.1
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Date: 13 Mar 91 05:52:14 GMT
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Hmm, a site to which I have access just installed SunFortran 1.3.1.  We
here still use 1.2.  I noticed a large change in size in the trivial
program below
	print*,'hello world'
	stop
	end

On a SS-1 (4.0.3) running f77 1.2 the stripped a.out was 49152 bytes.  On a
4/470 running 4.1 and f77 1.3.1 it was about 139kb.  
I have only read the on-line doc's on 1.3.1 so could be missing something.
Is this increase in size unavoidable?  As a matter of interest, what is it?
I should say I was expecting a shrinkage with the inclusion of the -pic
option.  If it's some introduced inefficiency in binding to libraries I'm
going to be very unhappy.
Enquiring minds ...