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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Subject: Re: huge executable??
Date: 2000/05/19
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* David Starner wrote:
>On Sun, 14 May 2000 21:11:33 GMT, tmoran@bix.com <tmoran@bix.com> wrote:
>>  The more important question is, is size a problem with real
>>programs that do something substantial.
>
>Sometimes. Think about writing Tom's Root/Boot Disk (one floppy Linux
>rescue disk) in Ada. It couldn't be compiled with gnat, because between
>libc (which libgnat depends on) and libgnat, you'd fill the 1.7M floppy
>well before you got any working code.

Or even think about init.