[comp.unix.wizards] Ultrix 2.0 C compiler executable sizes

kjm@marys (09/28/87)

Probably the biggest contributing factor might be the inclusion in the
executable of space for static variables.

The VAX FORTRAN does this; it made some of our executables jump from 100K
to 5 meg in length.  In FORTRAN, you can work around this by putting
huge arrays in COMMON blocks, which keeps the compiler from performing this
optimization.

			Ken