RE: Executable File Size Differences

[Simon FitzMaurice <sdf@east.thomsoft.com>]

There are two flavours of debugging information (Ada debugging and
CodeView - see the checkboxes on the link tab) optionally included in the
executables in *non-loadable* segments.  The use of each of these
significantly affects the size of "hello.exe" as the following table
indicates:

				   Ada debug
				Y		N
Codeview debug	Y	732104	331712
			N	732032	84480

Note that it is possible to remove debugging information from an
executable using the command "cvpack /strip".  The true memory footprint
is always most accurately determined from the link map.

In future versions it will be possible to link to the runtime in a DLL;
this further reduces the size of "hello.world" to around 10k without debug
(like MSVC).

Simon FitzMaurice
Principal Software Engineer
Thomson Software Products
200 Wheeler Road
Burlington MA 01803


On Wednesday, September 25, 1996, Georgi Savov wrote...
> Robert P. Kuzmicki wrote:
> > 
> > I tried compiling a simple "Hello World" program with the Thomson
Software's ActivAda for Windows
> > and Thomson's new "ObjectAda". The ActivAda version produces a
executable file size of about 288K.
> > ObjectAda produces an exe of about 788K. Microsoft C++ produces an exe
of about 10K. Why are the
> > executables so substantially different? Are the Ada compilers linking
in alot of excess baggage? I
> > have tried various compiler switches, but nothing seems to shrink the
exe file sizes.
> > 
> > Can anyone enlighten me here?
> Probably you are looking at the Debug version of the EXE file.
> Try making a Release Version. I did. It is 83K.
> 
> Georgi Savov
>