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From: "Thierry Lelegard" <thierry.lelegard@canal-plus.fr>
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Subject: Re: Parameter Modes, In In Out and Out
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> > > That's a very peculiar statement, very few of the programs
> > > I write are anywhere near a megabyte long.
> >
> > A couple of windows here, pair ActiveX controls there, plus
> > misuse of STL and here you are.
> 
> Misuse will get you anywhere :-)

with Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Hello is
begin
    Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Hello");
end Hello;

is 271 KB big with GNAT on Solaris.

A demo TCP server (simple echo server) is 3 MB big.

Real misuse indeed ;-))

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