Executable Size of Gnu Chess

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1 total messages Started by Bruce Momjian Tue, 02 Jul 1991 16:27

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Author: Bruce Momjian
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1991 16:27

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I have successfully compiled GNU chess under AT&T 386 Unix SVR3.1 using
GNU gcc 1.39.  My compliments to the developers.

I was wondering why the stripped executable was 1.8 Megs on my machine
(that's using shared librarys, curses version gnuchessn).  The object
file before linking was 1.7 Megs.  My assumption is that the program
defines an array with initializers, then defines many arrays of these arrays.

As 1.8 Megs is a little pricey for my drive ( for a chess program, at
least) my workaround was to compress the executable ( to 78k), and then
when I want to run it, uncompress it to /usr/tmp and run it, and delete
it upon exit.
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