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From: Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: huge executable??
Date: 2000/05/14
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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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