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From: bs@alice.UUCP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Eiffel vs. C++, no pointers in Eiffel
Summary: cout<<"Hello, world\n"); size
Message-ID: <9457@alice.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 19:29:38 GMT
References: <1339@novavax.UUCP> <6590143@hplsla.HP.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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We seem to have improved a bit. 2.0 gives:

$ cat h.c
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
	printf("Hello, world\n");
}
$ nCC h.c
nCC  h.c:
cc   h.i /usr/lib/nlibC.a
size a.out
$ text	data	bss	dec	hex
18432	2048	0	20480	5000
$ 

on my VAX

The printf() version equals C as usual.