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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: How to use Zero Footprint runtime with GNAT GPL 2017
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:27:37 +0100
Date: 2017-07-17T08:27:37+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lylgnnmsk6.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4ede9dd4-9b14-432e-acf0-43de9e0e77b9@googlegroups.com

Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@gmail.com> writes:

> On Friday, July 14, 2017 at 11:35:09 PM UTC+2, ake.ragna...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On windows 10 the hello world executable goes from 952kb to 131kb
>> with the ZFP runtime, and on Linux Ubuntu 16.04 the executable goes
>> from 588kb to 11kb. Comparing with hello world application for C++,
>> the executable is 109kb on Windows 10 and 7,5kb in Linux Ubuntu.
>
> If you are concerned about the size of the executable, you should use
> the -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections compiler switches and let
> the linker garbage collect unused symbols away (linker switch
> --gc-sections). See
> http://docs.adacore.com/gnat_ugn-docs/html/gnat_ugn/gnat_ugn.html
> section 6.3.3.

This works if you are using GNU ld; but not for native Darwin.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-17  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-14  8:34 How to use Zero Footprint runtime with GNAT GPL 2017 joakimds
2017-07-14  8:42 ` Egil H H
2017-07-14  8:58   ` joakimds
2017-07-14 15:41     ` Simon Wright
2017-07-14 21:35       ` ake.ragnar.dahlgren
2017-07-17  7:13         ` Mark Lorenzen
2017-07-17  7:27           ` Simon Wright [this message]
2017-07-17 20:52             ` Luke A. Guest
2017-07-26 21:29               ` joakimds
2017-07-26 21:31             ` joakimds
2017-07-26 21:28           ` joakimds
2017-07-14  9:56 ` Mark Lorenzen
2017-07-15 13:16 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-07-15 16:29   ` Lucretia
2017-07-16 13:39     ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2017-07-16 15:00       ` Lucretia
2017-07-16 14:17     ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
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