gcc iussue or ... ?

[Don Bowman]

Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
> The problem is very simple.
> I mantain a unix/linux port of a UO emulator which works really fine
> natively under FreeBSD.
>
> The problem is that if I compile it under FreeBSD it is a binary of 19M,
> while on linux (debian 3.0), same Makefile, is only 2MB. 
> FreeBSD 5.0 and
> OpenBSD 3.1 produce the (about) 19M file.
> Mingw compiler under windows act like Linux.

one thing I normally try is 
nm --size-sort --print-file-name *.o

and then look for an outlier, one that is much bigger than
the others.