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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Size of linked program increasing with new version of GNAT.
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 06:43:14 +0000
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> Janus/Ada also avoids any tasking overhead in programs that don't
> declare a task.

GNAT does this too.

A main program with a null body, compiled with -O2 and stripped,
resulted in executable size 83540; replacing the 'null;' by 'delay 0.0'
raised that to 107116.