[Gm2] re: Gnu Modula-2 binary size.

[Gaius Mulley]

Hi,

when the cvs savannah server returns I'll check in some patches which
allow users to specify no exception handling code should be generated.
When coupled together with the minimal libraries they yield the
following result on a LP64 debian system.


$ cat hello.mod
MODULE hello ;

FROM libc IMPORT printf ;

BEGIN
   printf("hello world\n")
END hello.

$ gm2 -fno-exceptions -c -g hello.mod
$ gm2 -fno-exceptions -flibs=min -g hello.mod
$ size a.out
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   2041     576      32    2649     a59 a.out


I've modified the Make-file.in slightly so that the minimal libraries
are now built and installed by default (they only consist of two
modules).

regards,
Gaius