From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: GNAT Codesize
Date: 1996/06/24
Date: 1996-06-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835637893.1349.0@assen.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.835359186@schonberg
dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
<..snip..>
>You actually have no idea how big your program is, so your guess that
>this is gnat inefficiency is incorrect. Undoubtedly you are building
>with debugging information present, at least in the runtime library
>routines. The debugging informatoin is typically MUCH larger than the
>actual code. So strip the objects or executables (depending on your
>system) if you want to make the executables smaller (but you won't
>be able to debug the resulting program).
By debugging information here are you referring to e.g. symbol tables
and that kind of thing? If so, is it not possible to keep this
information in a separate file akin to what embedded cross-development
systems tend to use? Obviously this would involve a lot of work and
I'm not suggesting that GNAT should be changed to behave like this,
I'm just curious as I too noticed that the GNAT executable for a
[small] program I wrote was more than 2x the size of an [functionally]
identical program compiled with Meridian's DOS Ada compiler.
Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>
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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 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` John McCabe [this message]
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
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 Ralph Paul
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Question about the need for requeue as described in Rationale James A. Squire
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