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Re:“Modern” C++ Lamentations by Gibbon1 on Friday December 28, 2018 @03:10PM (#18779096)
I abandoned C++ and Windows programming in 1996 to focus on hardware and firmware. So I'm rather familiar with just straight C and keeping code size down.

You have to be careful, a lot of those 8000 bytes might well be printf().

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Re:“Modern” C++ Lamentations by userbinator on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:07PM (#18779415)
You have to be careful, a lot of those 8000 bytes might well be printf().

If it was a statically linked executable, it would be far bigger than 8K.

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