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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: GNAT Codesize
Date: 1996/07/06
Date: 1996-07-06T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4rmo2o$bni@felix.seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 836687839.21932.0@assen.demon.co.uk


In article <836687839.21932.0@assen.demon.co.uk>,
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>It does appear that way doesn't it? Let's forget about strip from now
>on - besides, someone mentioned the default behaviour of GNAT on DOS
>was _not_ to leave debugging information in the executable which takes
>me back to me originally mentioning that the GNAT executable was 2 to
>3 times the size of the Meridian one for identical functionality.

Anyone interested in the mechanics of that DOS default is invited
to look in the bin directory where the GNAT binaries are. You will
discover there coff2exe.bat, a simple DOS batch file implementing
the behavior. You can even change it if you wish.:-)

Mike Feldman




  reply	other threads:[~1996-07-06  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-06-20  0:00 GNAT Codesize Haug Buerger
1996-06-20  0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1996-06-21  0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1996-06-21  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24  0:00   ` John McCabe
1996-06-24  0:00     ` John Howard
1996-06-25  0:00       ` David J. Fiander
1996-06-25  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-26  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-28  0:00       ` John McCabe
1996-06-28  0:00         ` Fergus Henderson
1996-06-29  0:00           ` John McCabe
1996-07-01  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-05  0:00               ` John McCabe
1996-07-05  0:00             ` JP Thornley
1996-06-30  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-02  0:00           ` John McCabe
1996-07-03  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-28  0:00       ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-01  0:00         ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-03  0:00           ` John McCabe
1996-07-02  0:00         ` John McCabe
1996-07-03  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-06  0:00             ` John McCabe
1996-07-06  0:00               ` Michael Feldman [this message]
1996-07-06  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08  0:00             ` Gavin Smyth
1996-07-03  0:00   ` Question about the need for requeue as described in Rationale James A. Squire
1996-07-05  0:00     ` Bo I. Sanden
1996-07-05  0:00       ` progers
1996-07-06  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-04  0:00   ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-07-04  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08  0:00   ` James A. Squire
1996-07-09  0:00     ` progers
1996-07-10  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-10  0:00       ` progers
1996-07-08  0:00   ` James A. Squire
1996-07-08  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-09  0:00     ` Bo I. Sanden
1996-07-08  0:00   ` James A. Squire
1996-07-09  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-21  0:00 ` GNAT Codesize Doug Smith
1996-07-08  0:00 ` Question about the need for requeue as described in Rationale James A. Squire
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