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Date:      Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:46:40 -0500
From:      Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: learning c++
Message-ID:  <20041018214640.6d110a53@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041018235001.GA99564@gothmog.gr>
References:  <20041018184016.3dbed7b8@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <20041018235001.GA99564@gothmog.gr>

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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:50:01 +0300
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2004-10-18 18:40, Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> wrote:
> > Any one know of any good guides to learning C++, specifically in
> > regards to the newer gcc?
> >
> > Currently been messing with it a bit, but I am figuring that I am
> > doing something wrong... been messing with learning strings and
> > the like and I am getting a a.out that has a obscene size... 142kB
> > in size...
> 
> Is your executable dynamically or statically linked?  The following
> small C++ program builds into an a.out file of about 6 Kb, which is
> rather small -- certainly not hundreds of kilobytes.
> 
>      1  #include <iomanip>
>      2  #include <iostream>
>      3
>      4  using namespace std;
>      5
>      6  int
>      7  main(void)
>      8  {
>      9          cout << "Hello C++ world" << endl;
>     10          return (0);
>     11  }
> giorgos@gothmog[02:45]/home/giorgos$ c++ -W -Wall hello.cc
> giorgos@gothmog[02:46]/home/giorgos$ ls -l a.out
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 giorgos  giorgos  6952 Oct 19 02:46 a.out
> giorgos@gothmog[02:46]/home/giorgos$ ./a.out
> Hello C++ world
> giorgos@gothmog[02:46]/home/giorgos$ ldd a.out
> a.out:
>         libstdc++.so.4 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.4 (0x28075000)
>         libm.so.3 => /lib/libm.so.3 (0x28147000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x28161000)

Managed to get it down to 248448, which appears to be the smallest
size I can manage to generate with c++... any ideas?


btw if it makes a difference, I am running 4stable



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