Peter L. Peres writes:

> The question is in the $SUBJ. I have a certain piece of software
> (assembler) that uses Flex. The source is ~500-1000 lines and should yield
> a 60-70k executable (ok, maybe 120k). There are no static tables, no
> recursive mallocs etc.
>
> This code compiles to 350k + dynamic ELF ! I have tried every optimization
> flag of the linker and compiler in turn, nada. First I had thought it is
> statically linked, but, nada, it's dynamic.
>
> So, before I remove Flex from my horizon permanently, can I have your
> opinion on this ?

Possibly it is full of symbols and/or debug info. Run strip on your
binary to remove them.

Mal
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