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Asked: 2026-05-23T11:39:03+00:00

I’m trying to write my first ‘demoscene’ application in MS Visual Studio Express 2010.

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I’m trying to write my first ‘demoscene’ application in MS Visual Studio Express 2010. Suddenly I realized, that my binary expanded from 16kb to ~100kb in fully-optimized-for-size release version. My target size is 64k. Is there any way to somehow “browse” binary to figure out, which methods consumes a lot of space, and which I should rewrite? I really want to know what my binary consists of.

From what I found in web, VS2010 is not the best compiler for demoscenes, but I still want to understand what’s happening inside my .exe file.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think you should have MSVC generate a map file for you. This is a file that will tell you the addresses of most of the different functions in your executable. The difference between consecutive addresses should tell you how much space the function takes. To generate a map file, add the /MAP linker option. For more info, see:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k7xkk3e2(v=VS.100).aspx

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