Size of executable almost triples

Moritz Warning moritzwarning at web.de
Tue Jul 29 06:44:35 PDT 2008


On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:42:21 -0400, Stefan wrote:

> I recently had to fix a little bug in an D application (win32). I
> thought that I would also be a good idea to upgrade to the most current
> version of the D compiler. When upgrading to 1.033 from 1.025 the
> executable size almost tripled from 227 kb to 603 kb! After building
> with all version from 1.025 up I found that this phenomenon occurs when
> switching from 1.031 to 1.032.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Stefan

Is there a bug report already? I haven't found one yet.
Such bloat is quite annoying.

Btw., you can always use "strip <program>" to reduce the binary size. Or 
even upx.



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