From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: Gnat Executable Size
Date: 1998/10/12
Date: 1998-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zpb16541.fsf@fred.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2d87ydi09.fsf@wf-rch.cirr.com
Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> writes:
> Niklas Holsti <nholsti@icon.fi> writes:
>
> > Robert B. Love wrote:
> > >
> > > Over in the Modula-2 newsgroup somebody was asking about free compilers.
> > > Another person pointed out GNAT as suitable for his task and free.
> > > Ada vs. M2 wasn't the issue. The original poster said he'd tried GNAT
> > > on a simple "hello world" program and was surprised to see a 200K
> > > executable. Others said their favorite M2 compiler yielded about 10K
> > > executables for this.
> > >
> > > I tried a simple Put_Line program myself with GNAT under Linux and
> > > got an 84K program. I've played with Pragma Optimze(Space) and
> > > Pragma Supress (All_Checks) but it stays about 84K.
> > >
> > > I then run strip on the GNAT generated executable and get it down to
> > > about 47K.
> > >
> > > How small can GNAT get "Hello World"? What compiler options and pragmas
> > > would you use for this?
> >
> > On my i486 Slackware Linux 2.0.0, GNAT 3.05 generates an executable
> > for Put_Line("Hello world!") of 22842 bytes (not stripped) or 10400
> > bytes (stripped). Compiler options were "-c -g". Seems comparable
> > to the M2 sizes. Source code below.
> >
>
> With 3.11b I get 57832 after stripping no matter how I compile it
> (optimiation at any level, with or without runtime checks) on my Linux
> box. Which makes sense because there's nothing to check or optimize.
The standard GNAT binary distribution on Linux seems to generate statically
linked libraries, while other distributions generate shared linked libraries
(to a libgnat.so). This can explain the size difference.
-Andi
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-10 0:00 Gnat Executable Size Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Lieven Marchand
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-15 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Gnat Free ? Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Fred J. McCall
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Bruno BEAUFILS
1998-10-25 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-17 0:00 ` The Ludwig Family
1998-10-18 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-23 0:00 ` system
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-17 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Gnat Executable Size geertbosch
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Dave Wood
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