Compiler: Size of generated executable file

[Walter Bright]

Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Maybe the problem is the man page for ld, which has a truly 
>> bewildering quantity of obtuse options, confusing people about what a 
>> linker actually does.
> 
> 
> Amusingly, it also contains the following phrase:
> 
> "The linker supports a plethora of command-line options, but in actual 
> practice few of them are used in any particular context."
> 
> :)
> 

Yeah, the problem is it takes several minutes to find the one that is 
actually useful, like -map.