From: Donald Duck <Donald.Duck@Entenhausen.net>
Subject: Re: Gnat Executable Size
Date: 1998/10/12
Date: 1998-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3621E42C.2920@Entenhausen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3620F843.39465221@home.com
As far as I understand, the comparison was _not_ between Ada and M2, but
between GNAT and any other compiler. What is true is, that the GNAT code
is bigger than code from other (even other Ada) compilers. For your
comparison you have to add the size of the EMX runtime also.
Bryce Bardin wrote:
>
> Robert B. Love wrote:
> >
> > Over in the Modula-2 newsgroup somebody was asking about free compilers.
> > Another person pointed out GNAT as suitable for his task and free.
> > Ada vs. M2 wasn't the issue. The original poster said he'd tried GNAT
> > on a simple "hello world" program and was surprised to see a 200K
> > executable. Others said their favorite M2 compiler yielded about 10K
> > executables for this.
>
> This is a naive view of program size. The size of executables depend on
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-10 0:00 Gnat Executable Size Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Donald Duck [this message]
1998-10-14 0:00 ` geertbosch
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-15 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Gnat Free ? Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Fred J. McCall
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Bruno BEAUFILS
1998-10-25 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-17 0:00 ` The Ludwig Family
1998-10-18 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-23 0:00 ` system
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-17 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Gnat Executable Size Lieven Marchand
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Dave Wood
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