From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1787c33169d3ed58 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!bos-service1.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.ray.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Big executable program size References: <1127094422.059661.244550@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1127094422.059661.244550@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <00BXe.5$QR.3@dfw-service2.ext.ray.com> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:42:52 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.111.90 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.ray.com 1127144572 147.24.111.90 (Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:42:52 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:42:52 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4911 Date: 2005-09-19T08:42:52-07:00 List-Id: fracttcarf@yahoo.co.kr wrote: > I downloaded gnat-gpl-2005-pentium-mingw32msv-bin.exe for win98 > and compiled hello.adb > This hello.exe size is 1520kb. why? The simple answer is that your program has statically linked in a lot of stuff it doesn't use. You could look at gnatelim if you're interested in how much of that is really needed. A longer answer points out that much of the excess is relatively fixed, and is not a significant proportion of a "real" program, where it's also more likely to be needed. -- Jeffrey Carter "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python and the Holy Grail E-mail: jeffrey_r_carter-nr [commercial-at] raytheon [period | full stop] com