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From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley)
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Subject: Re: Hello World 217Kb ?
Date: 23 Nov 2004 12:01:38 -0600
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In article <UnKod.5871$hJ6.4041@trndny01>, "stephane richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> writes:
> 
> With Ada.Text_IO;
> procedure Hello is
> begin
>     Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Hello World. Welcome to GNAT");
> end;
> 
> a whopping 217Kb (without debug information)...am I doing something wrong, 
> or is this the actual size of a basic exe file produced by Ada?
> 
> Compiled with GNAT 3.15p
> 

Which operating system ?

Yes, large executables (compared to C) are created for small programs,
but the percentage difference does reduce somewhat with larger programs.

If it's Linux, try running strip on the executable.

Simon.

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