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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Size of linked program increasing with new version of GNAT.
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:55:52 +0000 (UTC)
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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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