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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: TC2.0 upgrade thoughts, and a decision...
Message-ID: <16887@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 89 05:56:58 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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<4547@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy):
>
>>> 4)[...] reports that TC2.0 generated code is
>>> 10%-20% larger than TC1.5 generated code. Hmmmmm....
>
>Not that simple.  I noticed the increase in size, and I always use the
>command line compiler.  So I keep 1.5 around for "production" use, and
>for its nicer licensing requirements.

I believe that the command-line compiler, tcc, also includes the
debugger information by default.  I recently played around with this,
and found that a program that was around 62K under TCv1.5 was 78K under
both tc and tcc (in v2.0), unless I turned off the debugger options.
Turn 'em off, and the executable was 61K -- smaller than under v1.5.

The relevant command-line option for tcc is "-v-".  This turns off some
stuff that is included for the stand-alone debugger (not the integrated
debugger), and although the default isn't indicated, it appears to be "ON".