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From: dsmith@clark.net (Doug Smith)
Subject: Re: GNAT Codesize
Date: 1996/06/21
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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.