Re: Hello World 217Kb ?

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

stephane richard wrote:

> 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

This is fairly common. Text_IO is quite complex, and you are no doubt 
linking it all in, since that's the default with GNAT. On Linux the 
difference between Ada and C looks even worse, since the C often uses a 
shared library by default.

You could also look at GNAT.IO to see if it makes much of a difference.

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