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From: alexande@drivax.DRI (Mark Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: TC2.0 upgrade thoughts, and a decision...
Summary: File size != code size
Message-ID: <4197@drivax.DRI>
Date: 28 Jan 89 02:20:09 GMT
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Are you folks really sure that Turbo C 2.0 generates larger objects?
Comparing the file size is almost (but not quite) meaningless, because
there's a lot more in a .OBJ file than raw code: debugging information,
for example.

You need to find out the actual size of the code segment in a .OBJ
file to make accurate comparisons of compilers.  I have a program that
reads object files and prints this sort of information, if anybody
is interested.
-- 
Mark Alexander	(amdahl!drivax!alexande)