[fpc-pascal] Executable size compiler 1.96 vs 1.06
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Tue May 17 10:25:49 CEST 2005
> Ok something I just did was:
> Copy ldw.exe from the \dev-pascal\bin directory over to ld.exe in the 1.9.6 compiler (rename ldw to ld)
>
> Now program is only 440kb .. hmm
This is the stripping issue I think, and depends on GNU ld.
However the old ld had some problems too, that's why was decided to ship the newer one,
since one can always manually strip a release build with "strip file"
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