Bloat in Executable

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Thursday, 16 November 2017 at 03:32:26 UTC, codephantom wrote:
> 23k executable if 32bit (i.e. -m32 )

It is the statically linked C library. Note that if you remove 
the call to printf, the size is slashed in half.

Windows traditionally didn't do a system-wide C lib, but rather 
the various compiler vendors would do their own. To keep this 
from being a big pain for the end user, static linking can be 
employed as it apparently is with Digital Mars.

> 112k executable if 64bit (i.e. -m64 )

I'm not 100% sure this is the same, but I suspect it probably is.

> .. on freebsd ..
> 5.6k executable if 32bit (i.e. -m32 )

If you ldd that, you'll see it dynamically links the C library. 
The downside of this is there's less binary compatibility across 
major versions; you are liable to need to recompile from source 
to deal with different libc versions on the system, whereas the 
Windows builds are more likely to just work.