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From: rlove@antispam.neosoft.com (Robert B. Love )
Subject: Re: Gnat Executable Size
Date: 1998/10/13
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In <6vtdfc$r50$2@xenon.inbe.net> Lieven Marchand wrote:
> rlove@antispam.neosoft.com (Robert B. Love ) writes:
> 
> > [snipped discussion of size of Hello world program]
> > How small can GNAT get "Hello World"?  What compiler options and 
pragmas
> > would you use for this?
> > 
> 
> These kind of discussions seem to come up about every 3 months. I
> never understood why the size of this particular program is of any
> real importance. In some of the languages I really like like Modula-3

My original intent when I first asked the question was to go back
to the M2 newsgroup and respond to the guy who didn't want GNAT 
because the executable was too large.  I wasn't worried about it
myself.  Thanks to everybody who responded.


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