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From: reaper@wixer.helps.cs.utexas.edu (Keath Milligan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Help! Microsoft C program size problem!
Message-ID: <1991May31.234150.739@wixer.helps.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 23:41:50 GMT
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Concerning your size problem:  Even if your program is large model, LINK will
by default allocate space for a near heap.  This near heap will be 64k minus
the total size of all your near-data-segment items.  This is probably where 
that wasted 47k is coming from.

In addition to that, LINK will also (by default) construct the .EXE so that it
will allocate all available main memory when it runs.

Try using  "/CP:1"  this will cause LINK to not reserve space for a near heap
and construct the .EXE so that it will only allocate as much memory as it
needs when it runs.