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From: Adrian Knoth <adi@thur.de>
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Subject: Re: binary size (gnat+win console)
Date: 1 Aug 2004 22:39:21 GMT
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Andi <hmail@gmx.net> wrote:

> a simple "hello-world" binary takes 219kb after building!?

Strange.

adi@drcomp:/tmp$ ls -l Hello
-rwxr-xr-x  1 adi users 21193 Aug  2 00:29 Hello
adi@drcomp:/tmp$ strip Hello
adi@drcomp:/tmp$ ls -l Hello
-rwxr-xr-x  1 adi users 7668 Aug  2 00:29 Hello

Compiler is gnat-3.15p with Ludovic's Debian-backports.

But I wouldn't care too much about executable size. I guess
having a more complex application wouldn't raise the size
in a linear way, it's just the usual overhead (constant amount).

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