Re: Differences between gnat 4.4.5 and 4.5.1

[Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@mail.com>]

Julian Leyh <julian@vgai.de> writes:

> On 10 Mrz., 07:01, Noel Duffy <hobcraft-use...@yahooxtra.co.nz> wrote:
>> I wonder whether what I am seeing is a result of a difference in gcc-gnat
>> version, a difference in distribution packaging, or possibly a
>> combination of both. Is there anyone using Fedora here who could possibly
>> shed any light on this?
>
> What do "file" and "ldd" tell you about them? Are the sizes more
> similar if you "strip" them?

I'd be inclined to think stripping may be the culprit. Debian is well
known to use stripped binaries by default, so I wouldn't be surprised if
the various toolchains are set up that way as well.

IIRC, this is what led them to stop being the default GNU distro, as the
GNU folks like their binaries with debug info by default. And since
Fedora is mostly a Red Hat project, and Red Hat has absorbed a *lot* of
the GCC devs via Cygnus, I'd expect Fedora to *not* strip by default.

Ludovic could probably answer that one in his sleep.

Mart

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