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>> I downloaded gnat-gpl-2005-pentium-mingw32msv-bin.exe for win98
>> and compiled hello.adb
>> This hello.exe size is 1520kb. why?
>The simple answer is that your program has statically linked in a lot of
>...
>A longer answer points out that much of the excess is relatively fixed,
>and is not a significant proportion of a "real" program, where it's also
>more likely to be needed.
 Also, different Ada compilers generate substantially different exe sizes,
presumably depending on how their designers view the cost of
disk/RAM/bandwidth vs the cost of trimming out the fat.