Re: It's been a while...

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)]

Luke A. Guest:

> I learned Ada at University around 1995 and I've been interested in
> getting back into it. Now, I have a simple "hello" app and it is huge.
> Now, I don't want to have a load of people telling me not to judge Ada on
> the size, but I really want to know how to get the app size down. The app
> is:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 laguest  users      200492 2003-05-29 22:16 hello
> 
> This is an example program from the sources, compiled with:
> 
> 	gnatmake -O3
...
> Now, surely the app doesn't need this info and it must be taking up a lot
> of space. Do I need to go into the linker scripts to strip this info out?

This is a feature of GNAT, not of all Ada compilers: no smart linking.
- at least afaik, and on 30-May-2003. The issue is as old as GNAT...
  http://groups.google.com/groups?q=smart+linking+gnat
Probabily the big executable size is harmless and doesn't hurt performance
(only used parts being loaded), but this is to be proven...
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