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From: haug@zesi.ruhr.de (Haug Buerger)
Subject: GNAT Codesize
Date: 1996/06/20
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I have a little Ada program to convert mail and news to display
propperly on an PC with OS/2, nothing but some character
conversions. The main programm is 146 lines long, the
corresponding object file is from 63849 to 113000 bytes big
depending on the optimizeations (-O0..-O3). The object contains
about 2kbyte of text information. That's about 400 bytes per
line, best case.

Assuming that all the runtime check code is in the runtime
libraries, what is gnat doing? It seems to me that gnat produces
very inefficiente code.

The whole program is never smaller than 400kbyte. Is it possible
to use a dynamic link library for the runtime library? Is there
any chance to reduce the code size?

Haug