Re: Reducing the size of executables produced by GNAT

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Hibou57 schrieb:

> For a long time ago I'm looking for a way to reduce th esize of Ada
> programs compiled with GNAT.

See 
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Basic#FAQ:_Why_is_.22Hello.2C_world.21.22_so_big.3F

> With a simple Hello-World I cannot go below 45KB, which is very much
> for a so simple program.

Well, the record is 8kb for Linux-i686-Release.

> I'm afraid of what it means : take long to initialize at startup ? (I
> need fast application, for CGI on a Linux server), many unusefull
> dependencies on external library ? etc, etc

No nessesarily, static linked files are large but might load faster. All 
depends of course. If startup is important then guesswork won't help - 
you have to time it.

BTW: I hope you use the most powerfully CGI binding available:

http://adacl.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/CommonGatewayInterface

Note that AdaCL.CGI is the only CGI implementation which supports file 
upload.

Martin
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