From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Subject: Re: Size of linked program increasing with new version of GNAT.
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:55:52 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2014-12-26T15:55:52+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m7k0e8$5a2$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1419604367.2226.5.camel@obry.net
On 2014-12-26, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> wrote:
>
> Since when "bigger size" means worse?
>
When you need the resulting executable to fit in fixed size flash memory. :-)
(I'm answering the general question here and not discussing the OP's
current environment.)
> Have you looked at the actual code size (.text section)?
>
This is exactly what I was going to ask.
It would be interesting for the OP to run the binutils size command on
both executables and post the results.
>
> What is the price of the disk today compared to 10 years ago?
>
Not all executables run on a desktop PC. If current versions of GNAT
have increased the actual minimum executable size this may be of
interest for embedded environments.
Simon.
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2014-12-25 17:44 Size of linked program increasing with new version of GNAT Tony
2014-12-25 17:57 ` Björn Lundin
2014-12-25 18:36 ` tony7
2014-12-25 19:41 ` Björn Lundin
2014-12-25 20:04 ` Shark8
2014-12-25 20:15 ` tony7
2014-12-25 21:23 ` Shark8
2014-12-25 22:48 ` Peter Chapin
2014-12-27 1:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-12-27 6:43 ` Simon Wright
2014-12-27 18:25 ` Tony
2014-12-27 23:18 ` Simon Wright
2014-12-29 23:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-12-30 15:21 ` Björn Lundin
2014-12-30 17:45 ` Tony
2014-12-30 21:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-12-30 23:51 ` Shark8
2014-12-31 12:08 ` Jean François Martinez
2014-12-31 12:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-01-01 12:28 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-12-26 14:32 ` Pascal Obry
2014-12-26 15:48 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-12-26 15:55 ` Simon Clubley [this message]
2014-12-26 20:14 ` Tony
2014-12-27 1:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-12-27 9:35 ` Pascal Obry
2014-12-27 21:17 ` Jean François Martinez
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