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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner)
Subject: Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.
Date: 1999/09/28
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In article <1103_938536221@DZOG-CHEN>, Ed Falis wrote:
>> > (...) over twice the size of the original.
>> 
>
>I suppose there's one additional comment to make regarding
>the handling of the runtime library - the use of DLL's.  It wasn't
>clear whether there were parts of the RTL of the other 
>languages in DLL's.  It's also possible to put the Ada RTL
>into a DLL (not sure about GNAT in this regard).
>
>- Ed

GNAT normally statically links to the RTL, a large part
of the reason my first attempt produced such a large binary.
But the Ada for Linux team has patches to let you dynamically
link against GNAT's RTL, and the final result was dynamically
linked (for both C++ and Ada). 

David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org