Hello. On 29 Jan 2007, you wrote:
> BTW, found this in Bjarne's C++ FAQ: > Why is the code generated for the "Hello world" program ten times > larger for C++ than for C? > It isn't on my machine, and it shouldn't be on yours. I have even > seen the C++ version of the "hello world" program smaller than the C > version. When I recently (2004) tested using gcc -o2 on a Unix, the > two versions (iostreams and stdio) yielded identical sizes. There is > no language reason why the one version should be larger than the > other. It is all an issue on how the implementor organized the > libraries. If one version is significantly larger than the other, > report the problem to the implementor of the larger. I've tried the Bjarne's "hello world" example, too, and was surprised to see the executable was almost 4MB! 5 lines of code, a couple includes, isn't it a bit too much? Bye, Nuno
