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lvqcl wrote: > I just built FLAC and noticed that the size of flac.exe is noticeably bigger, > so I compared the generated Makefiles before ang after this change. > > The difference is: "-g -O2" options were added to CFLAGS. > > before: > CFLAGS = -O3 -funroll-loops -Wall -W -Winline -Wall -Wextra -Wstrict-prototypes > -Wmissing-prototypes -Waggregate-return

...-externs -Wshadow -Wundef -Wmissing-declarations -Wunreachable-code >> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -msse2 -Wextra > > Well -g asks the compiler to add debug symbols. What hapens if you strip > the binary? After stripping: the binary is smaller than previously (520kB vs 652kB). Probably that's because the compiler now uses -O2: according to <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.1/gcc/Optimize-Options.html> "If you use multiple -O options, with or without level numbers, the last such option is the one that is effective" which means that GC...