DWT+OpenGL crashing on Vista [OT]

Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com
Sun Jan 18 17:03:54 PST 2009


On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Off topic - I wonder why executable could be so big? (Forgive my ignorance I
>> am not either Tango/DWT/Derelict user)
>
> I dunno, but it's a frequent complaint.  Maybe the linker just isn't
> very good at throwing away unneeded code?

It isn't, from what I understand.  Also, anything declared as a
"const" is never thrown away and takes up space in the executable.
Also struct and class inits, and typeinfo.  It adds up.



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