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wilcomir:

--- Quote from: thomas on November 03, 2009, 12:48:27 pm ---According to your commandline, you are not generating any symbols and not linking to any external libraries. Thus, a program with a 2 kB object file should have minimum PE size, i.e. 4 kB. If it doesn't, then maybe you have some malware on your computer which adds that code (possibly several ones, since 500 kB is quite a lot).

To be sure it really isn't just debug symbols, though, rename the prova.exe to something that doesn't look like a program, for example prova.txt.
Then run strip prova.txt. If the program is now about 4kB, all is good, then the increased size was only due to debug symbols. If it's still around 500 kB and it was really created from a 2 kB object file with a commandline as described above, then you may want to ring the alarm bells.

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hi, I did as you say, now the exe is 270kb in size.. still too much i believe... maybe I'll solve using another compiler, but wich one?

thanks everybody

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