From: dsmith@clark.net (Doug Smith)
Subject: Re: GNAT Codesize
Date: 1996/06/21
Date: 1996-06-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dsmith-2106961226050001@dsmith.clark.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31c8fdd4.5a455349@zesi.ruhr.de
In article <31c8fdd4.5a455349@zesi.ruhr.de>, haug@zesi.ruhr.de (Haug
Buerger) wrote:
> I have a little Ada program to convert mail and news to display
> propperly on an PC with OS/2, nothing but some character
> conversions. The main programm is 146 lines long, the
> corresponding object file is from 63849 to 113000 bytes big
> depending on the optimizeations (-O0..-O3). The object contains
> about 2kbyte of text information. That's about 400 bytes per
> line, best case.
>
> Assuming that all the runtime check code is in the runtime
> libraries, what is gnat doing? It seems to me that gnat produces
> very inefficiente code.
>
> The whole program is never smaller than 400kbyte. Is it possible
> to use a dynamic link library for the runtime library? Is there
> any chance to reduce the code size?
>
> Haug
I use the Unix "strip" utility which reduces the code size
from 20-40%. If there is a similar utility on OS/2, you could
try it.
Doug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-06-21 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-20 0:00 GNAT Codesize Haug Buerger
1996-06-20 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-24 0:00 ` John Howard
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-25 0:00 ` David J. Fiander
1996-06-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-06-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-05 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-03 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-06 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-06 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Gavin Smyth
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Question about the need for requeue as described in Rationale James A. Squire
1996-07-05 0:00 ` Bo I. Sanden
1996-07-05 0:00 ` progers
1996-07-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Bo I. Sanden
1996-07-08 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-08 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-09 0:00 ` progers
1996-07-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-10 0:00 ` progers
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Doug Smith [this message]
1996-07-08 0:00 ` James A. Squire
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox