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Subject: Re: How to use Zero Footprint runtime with GNAT GPL 2017
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:27:37 +0100
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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.