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From: James E. Hopper <jhopper@erinet.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT Codesize
Date: 1996/06/20
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In article <31c8fdd4.5a455349@zesi.ruhr.de> Haug Buerger,
haug@zesi.ruhr.de writes:
>I have a little Ada program to convert mail and news to display
>propperly on an PC with OS/2, nothing but some character
>conversions. The main programm is 146 lines long, the
>corresponding object file is from 63849 to 113000 bytes big
>depending on the optimizeations (-O0..-O3). The object contains
>about 2kbyte of text information. That's about 400 bytes per
>line, best case.
>

we have found that if you pull in text_io things get large in a hurry,
as gcc linker does not prune unused code. however if you can get by with
gnat_io things are MUCH smaller.

jim