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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Re; It's been a while...
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 10:04:54 +0000 (UTC)
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:
:   Have you looked at the
: assembly listing to see how big the program is, exclusive of Ada.Text_IO
: and any other libraries that it's hauling in?  Have you tried another
: compiler, on another platform?

In addition, if you omit the put_line("Hello World!") the size shrinks down
to 37k, which should underline what Tom has has about Text_IO.
You do have taken into account the fact that Ada has a run time 
system and exception handling?


Georg