Re: Why is memory footprint smaller when compiled static?

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 13:37:36 +0200 (MET DST), Grein, Christoph wrote:
> 
> 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.

What on earth are you talking about? Why are you comparing C to Ada. I
haven't made any C code nor am I comparing C code. Neither is my program
a mere Hello_World program (ref : http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/Ada95/Glosa/).

I was only curious why the memory usage seems to drop 1 Mb after
compiling the program as static rather than shared. I don't care so much
how much memory my program takes, I just wanted to learn something about
this.

Preben Randhol