Modula2's godawful IO.

[mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu]

>In fact, if your C implementation has a limited address space and a bulky
>floating-point library and does NOT do this, complain to the implementors.
>It's not a novel or strange idea.  The very first C implementation, on the
>pdp11, used this trick.  If Microslop can't be bothered, don't buy their
>compiler.
-- 

The following program
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
  int i = 5;
  printf("%d is an int\n",i);
}
compiles and links under Microsoft C 5.00 to a .exe file 7089 bytes long.
Changing "int" to "double" and %d to %lf results in a file 21242 bytes long.
The Microsoft C compiler is quite good, better than most Unix ones, I would 
guess. It has myriads of options that allow you do get just what you want.

Doug McDonald