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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> fpc-devel <fpc-devel-bounces@lists.freepascal.org> on behalf of J. Gareth Moreton <gareth@moreton-family.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 18, 2020 11:09:29 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [fpc-devel] Binary size discrepancy with -a</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi everyone,<br>
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I've noticed something a bit weird with the Free Pascal Compiler when <br>
you use the the -a option to dump the compiled assembly files... the <br>
resultant binaries are sometimes smaller. I recently tried it with <br>
Lazarus under x86_64-win64 (using "make distclean all install" with FPCOPT):<br>
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(-O4 -OoCONSTPROP)<br>
241,010,289 bytes - lazarus.exe<br>
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(-a -O4 -OoCONSTPROP)<br>
235,655,062 bytes - lazarus.exe<br>
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Anyone else noticed this? Logically, shoudn't the EXE files be <br>
completely identical?<br>
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Gareth aka. Kit<br>
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