Size of executable almost triples

[Stefan]

Do you have a similar effect with Linux?
You mentioned strip, what does it exactly?

Stefan

Moritz Warning Wrote:

> 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.