Re: [Mingw-w64-public] size of binaries (32 and 64 bits)

2012-12-08 Thread NightStrike
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Vincent Torri vincent.to...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Kai Tietz ktiet...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, yes, this size different - *especially* for *small* apps - is to be expected. As exactly for those *small* applications differences in

[Mingw-w64-public] size of binaries (32 and 64 bits)

2012-12-07 Thread Vincent Torri
hey, While checking --as-needed on Windows (which, btw, seems useless as the win32 linker seems smarter than the linux one), i've looked at the size of binaries produced by mingw.org (hence 32 bits) and mingw-w64 64 bits. The code: #include stdio.h int main() { printf(test\n); return 0; }

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] size of binaries (32 and 64 bits)

2012-12-07 Thread Kai Tietz
Hello, yes, this size different - *especially* for *small* apps - is to be expected. As exactly for those *small* applications differences in startup-code are shown more significant. Additionally it is absolutely unprofessional to compare 32-bit exectuable vs 64-bit one. The latter has

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] size of binaries (32 and 64 bits)

2012-12-07 Thread Vincent Torri
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Kai Tietz ktiet...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, yes, this size different - *especially* for *small* apps - is to be expected. As exactly for those *small* applications differences in startup-code are shown more significant. Additionally it is absolutely