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Subject: Ultrix 2.0 C compiler executable sizes
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Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 11:12:22 EDT
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Probably the biggest contributing factor might be the inclusion in the
executable of space for static variables.

The VAX FORTRAN does this; it made some of our executables jump from 100K
to 5 meg in length.  In FORTRAN, you can work around this by putting
huge arrays in COMMON blocks, which keeps the compiler from performing this
optimization.

			Ken