[Tom Bombadil]

Hi there,

I have decided to take up C/C++ programming as a hobby and starting at the Darwin command line I am getting to grips with GCC/G++.

Using the simple "Hello world" program, I have noticed that if written in C and compiled with GCC I get a binary size of about ~11Kb.

When I write that same program in C++ (using IOSTREAM) and compile with G++ I get a 660Kb binary!!

If I use "strip" this halves the binary size. I wonder if any of you Dev's can offer a bit of guidance as to why this is please? If I try the same example under Fedora Linux on my PC I get a binary sizes ~11K for each.

Thanks for your time

[spiky_dog]

Search is your friend:

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ht=binary+size

[Tom Bombadil]

Search is indeed my friend - thank you.

Seems that the large binaries are due to the static nature of libraries. I wonder if this may be remedied in future builds of the GCC environment?

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by Tom Bombadil:
Seems that the large binaries are due to the static nature of libraries. I wonder if this may be remedied in future builds of the GCC environment?

I somewhat doubt that. The standard C++ library should be static for obvious reasons.

C++ is a big ugly beast. 600k isn't really that big in this day and age.