Hello I have a problem I just made a hang man game in for dos using c++ yet when i sent it to a friend and it was about 500kb in size and I think that its quite excessive for a game that only has 150 lines of code so plz some one tell me the reason for this. And ill attack the source code if that would help.
Explore some of the settings that are available for your compiler. Typically if you change modes, i.e from debug to release, the output binary is smaller. I've worked on a project with over 100K lines, and the total binary output didn't cap 5MB, so your are correct that proportionally your output is quite large.
I'll bet even money your compiler is including debugging symbols in the code
Mmm, compiles to 17K in "release" mode when compiled for Linux using gcc.
Gotta be a debug build...
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
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