From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,364dfbdf0a113a56 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: Looking for a smart linker for GNAT/DOS Date: 1997/04/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 235170089 Sender: tardieu@esmeralda.enst.fr References: <1997Apr15.202909.5879@news> Mail-Copies-To: sam@ada.eu.org To: Gautier.deMontmollin@Maths.UniNe.CH Organization: TELECOM Paris Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Gautier" == Gautier writes: Gautier> Is there an alternative linker for GNAT/DOS, a bit smarter Gautier> than the ``official'' one - i.e. which would add into the Gautier> .exe only the really used procedures of a package ? AFAIK no. Gautier> It could avoid the explosion of executables' sizes (47k for a Gautier> ``null'' programme, 97k for a ``hello world'',...) Well, this has nothing to do with an "explosion", this is a rather fixed overhead (depending on the packages you need). Sure, if you only write "null" or "hello world" programs, this overhead is significant, but as soon as you start working on real projects, then this becomes insignificant. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org