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From: antonio_duran@hotmail.com (Antonio Duran)
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Subject: Re: binary size
Date: 5 Jun 2002 00:37:41 -0700
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On SuSE Linux 8.0 using gnat 3.13p the size of the resulting
executable invoking gnatmake with no additional parameters is 19,9K.

   Antonio Duran

"Peter Bui" <peterbui@mybox.cc> wrote in message news:<zsaL8.46033$wj7.16287732@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> I faced this problem too, but after some messing around, I found a way to
> reduce the executable file size.  Try:
> 
> gnatmake -O2 -fno-inline --GNATBIND='gnatbind -shared' sourcefile.adb
> 
> Replace sourcefile.adb with your file.  The key here is the
> "--GNATBIND='gnatbind -shared' ", which tells the compiler to use the shared
> library rather than the static.  I'm not sure if the "-O2" or the
> "-fno-inline" really do much, but I haven't really experimented too much
> with them.
> 
> Anyways, after you compile using the line above you should get an executable
> about ~15 kb or something in that neighborhood.  To further reduce the
> executable filesize, run:
> 
> strip executable
> 
> using this I have been able to get a simple Hello World program down to ~6kb
> which is a significant reduction.
> 
> BTW, I am using Gnat 3.14p on Linux
> Good Luck!
> 
> "Alexei A. P." <apolkhanov@novus-tele.net> wrote in message
> news:al_K8.117776$%o.11491889@bin3.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com...
> > Given two programs one in C another in Ada95. Simple "HEllo world" program
> > takes as much as 300K !, same time C program with same functionality only
> > 14K .
> > Looking at symbol table of both executables I can see that Ada runtime
> > consumes 90
> > % of it, then I've got a simple question: Can I move this part into one
> > shared module ? I
> > am using GNAT on Linux and I am wondering if this is a right way to go ?
> > Posibly there is
> > another, standard, way to make runtime libraries shared ? And Should
>  things
> > like Text_IO
> > be included in it as well ?
> >
> > Alexei.
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