huge executable??

[David Dousette <david.dousette@mailandnews.com>]

I'm using the OS/2 version of GNAT 3.12p, and as I'm still new to Ada, I
thought I'd take a stab at a "Hello World!" program, without my handy
book... got it on the second try, stupid semicolon... anyway, my
question was why is the executable so large?  Here's the code:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
with Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Hello is

begin
    Ada.Text_IO.Put("Hello World!");
    Ada.Text_IO.Flush;
end Hello;
--------------------------------------------------------------------

I compiled it with the command line "gnatmake hello.adb" and the
executable generated was a little over 250,000 bytes!  I ran it through
"emxbind -s" (as suggested by R. Dewar) to strip out all the debugging
stuff, but it's still 126,000 bytes.... why?  I wrote a similar program
in C, and it was less than 5,000 bytes... why is the .EXE produced by
Ada so much bigger?  The executable runs fine, and I have plenty of hard
drive space... I was just curious.

Thanks,
David