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Subject: Re: Size of linked program increasing with new version of GNAT.
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Tony <tony7@tele2.se> writes:

> I'd expect that program to be compiled into a single machine code
> return instruction.

And I expect it was.

A program's startup/shutdown code is likely to be pretty independent of
waht the program actually does, and will have a certain minimum size
appropriate to the platform. GNAT's minimum size depends on whether
tasking is involved or not.