Re: Why is memory footprint smaller when compiled static?

["Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>]

> > 
> >> Why is there such a big difference?
> > 
> > Page granularity?  Space taken by the GOT?  Overhead of
> > position-independent code?
> 
> Can one have page granularity resulting in 1 Mb difference? The two
> others I don't understand what is.

This is a qustion that appears every now and then. In my eyes, it's rather 
pointless to argue about Hello_World size. Real programs matter, and there the 
differences are minor if programs are really comparable (proper setting of 
options).

The difference in size normally can be attributed to differences in the IO parts 
of C and Ada: Ada does many more things than C, so IO is not comparable, and IO 
is all that matters in Hello_World.