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Reduce the Size of an ATL DLL

When writing an ATL DLL or an ActiveX Control DLL, developers used to take off the ATL_MIN_CRT. However, this action will increase the size of the DLL up to almost 30k. To avoid doing this, just change the string manipulation functions from C-style to C++ style by adding the character

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