Small size of executable?

[maurosebastian91]

Hello colleagues, good morning.

In the development of my little audio game, I noticed a small detail that I didn't know how to answer.

My executable combining sdl and csfml audio 2, is 51 KB, (52224 bits), and as I add more code and function calls and all that, when I check how the size has changed, it always stays the same.
It is true that I have not yet added so much information, but how can it be that it always weighs the same?

thank you,

Greetings.

[jj2007]

52224 bytes is 51*1024 bytes. The OS (Windows, I guess) creates executables as multiples of 1024 bytes. When your code needs 50*1024+1=51201 bytes, the OS reserves 52224 bytes. You can add 1023 more bytes of code without increasing your executable size.

[SARG]

To complete jj2007's post
Look at file properties :
File size and size on disk. The second is equal or greater than the first.

[maurosebastian91]

Thank you for your answers.

since you mention it, finally my executable increased in size, by 0.5 MB.

[jj2007]

since you mention it, finally my executable increased in size, by 0.5 MB.

You mean 0.5kB, i.e. 512 bytes.

The OS (Windows, I guess) creates executables as multiples of 1024 bytes

That was wrong, it's actually multiples of 512 bytes - sorry.

[deltarho[1859]]

I am being pedantic - 0.5KiB.