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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,81cf52699486abe7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Alfred Hilscher Subject: Re: Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses. Date: 1999/09/29 Message-ID: <37F22A06.176CA9F6@icn.siemens.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 530736416 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37EED7B8.245C0054@yukyonline.co.yuky> <7smp30$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <7sp8m9$a6e$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37F0D03C.DE4807D4@icn.siemens.de> <7srnb9$2u3$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Siemens AG Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > In article <37F0D03C.DE4807D4@icn.siemens.de>, > Alfred Hilscher wrote: > > What switches are > > needed to generate the smallest possible code ? > > > > Regards, > > Alfred > > Well obviously you strip a module to reduce debug symbol size, > and you go to dynamic linking of the GNAT library, but really > the size of small programs is a rather insignificant issue > these days when 100K of disk space costs 0.1 cents. Simply replace "Disk" by "Ram". Or lets think about a program of 1.5 MB, how transfer it on floppy ? > The size of large programs is a concern, but measuring the > size of hello world programs has nothing at all to do with > the size of real programs, since what you are really > concentrating on here is the default size of the minimal > run-time library. As mentioned in my original article, I did the comparison not only with "Hello world" (you've read it) ?