From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,344332f209947007,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: rlove@antispam.neosoft.com (Robert B. Love ) Subject: Gnat Executable Size Date: 1998/10/10 Message-ID: <6volj0$250$1@uuneo.neosoft.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 399779332 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Over in the Modula-2 newsgroup somebody was asking about free compilers. Another person pointed out GNAT as suitable for his task and free. Ada vs. M2 wasn't the issue. The original poster said he'd tried GNAT on a simple "hello world" program and was surprised to see a 200K executable. Others said their favorite M2 compiler yielded about 10K executables for this. I tried a simple Put_Line program myself with GNAT under Linux and got an 84K program. I've played with Pragma Optimze(Space) and Pragma Supress (All_Checks) but it stays about 84K. I then run strip on the GNAT generated executable and get it down to about 47K. How small can GNAT get "Hello World"? What compiler options and pragmas would you use for this? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Love MIME & NeXT Mail OK rlove@neosoft.com ----------------------------------------------------------------