Re: binary size (gnat+win console)

[Per Sandberg <per.sandberg@bredband.net>]

Hi,
I sounds like you are building with static runtimes and  have debug 
symbols in the executable.
Some months ago i did a test with code sizes for hello_world and using
Ada compiled with GNAT
C compiled with GCC and MS VC++ 6.0
and the size of the executables was about 10K bytes.
I did not looke any further since the sizes from all three compilers was 
about the same when doing the same thing.
* Building with full opimization.
* Use dynamic linked runtimes.
* Dont include debug symbols in the executable.
(This is using GNATPro 5.03w) and i dont remember when dynamic runtimes 
was introduced in GNAT.
 From my experience:
    Most compilers produces executables of comparable sizes (+/- 15%) 
when doing the same thing
       * Linking the same way (Dynamic or static runtimes),
       * Having the same set of runtime checks enabled (Suppress all 
checks when copmparing Ada and C/C++).
       * With or without debug symbols,
       * Same optimsztion settings.
/Per






Andi wrote:

> hello,
>
> a simple "hello-world" binary takes 219kb after building !?
> there are ways for optimizations ??
>
> best regards
>
>
> ---
> with Ada.Text_Io;
> use Ada.Text_Io;
>
> procedure Hello is
> begin
>    Put_Line("Hello World");
> end Hello;
> ---
>
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