On Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 22:47 Mike Rejsa via Gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
wrote:

> Hi, new to gcc, running 32b on an old Win-XP notebook.
>
> When I compile small utilities (say, treesort or equivalent, just console
> output) I get executables that are from 10-16 times larger as with my
> previous compiler (a 16b Aztec). Something that compiles to 7-8k with the
> Aztec is 100k+ with gcc. Why is this?
>
> TIA
> miker
>

Strip them afterwards. There's also -Os as an option.

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