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From: Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: huge executable??
Date: 2000/05/14
Date: 2000-05-14T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <391F102C.26ED7310@maths.unine.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 391E09C3.FA04871E@mailandnews.com

David Dousette:

> 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.

With wich compiler did you compile your C program ? The 5,000 bytes seem
rather from some 16-bit Turbo C. With GCC it would be (logarithmically)
nearer to 126,000 bytes...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-05-14  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-13  0:00 huge executable?? David Dousette
2000-05-14  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-14  0:00 ` tmoran
2000-05-15  0:00   ` Roger Barnett
2000-05-15  0:00   ` DELCOURT J�r�me
2000-05-15  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-15  0:00       ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2000-05-15  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-16  0:00           ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2000-05-16  0:00             ` tmoran
2000-05-16  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-16  0:00               ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2000-05-16  0:00         ` tmoran
2000-05-16  0:00           ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2000-05-16  0:00         ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-16  0:00           ` huge executable?? - worry no more Tom Hargraves
2000-05-16  0:00             ` Gautier
2000-05-16  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-19  0:00               ` Richard D Riehle
2000-05-19  0:00                 ` Ken Garlington
2000-05-16  0:00             ` Marin D. Condic
2000-05-16  0:00             ` Martin Dowie
2000-05-18  0:00         ` huge executable?? (null)
2000-05-16  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-16  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-05-16  0:00           ` Gautier
2000-05-16  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-05-17  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-16  0:00       ` Gautier
2000-05-16  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-16  0:00       ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-16  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-15  0:00     ` Gisle S�lensminde
2000-05-15  0:00   ` David Starner
2000-05-19  0:00     ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2000-05-14  0:00 ` Gautier [this message]
2000-05-14  0:00   ` David Dousette
2000-05-14  0:00     ` Gautier
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