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On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, Shark8 wrote:

>> 
>>> -Os for small size.
>> 
>> Tried this one also now. The 3.15p GNAT don't have it. The 2014 GNAT
>> still produces a 195 KB executable.
>> 
>
> Did you use the "strip unused sections" [or something similar] option 
> for the linker?

The OP might also want to look into gnatelim to see if using it could help 
eliminate unusued code.

One could argue that the size of the "Hello, World" program isn't all that 
important. The overhead might be large but if most of that overheard is 
actually used in a realistically sized program, well, it's not really 
overhead in that case.

Peter