[fpc-devel] Binary size discrepancy with -a

[Benito van der Zander]

Hi J. Gareth,

I once added -a to debug my Android app, and then it did not start 
anymore on some devices...



Bye,
Benito
On 19.07.20 05:09, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've noticed something a bit weird with the Free Pascal Compiler when 
> you use the the -a option to dump the compiled assembly files... the 
> resultant binaries are sometimes smaller.  I recently tried it with 
> Lazarus under x86_64-win64 (using "make distclean all install" with 
> FPCOPT):
>
> (-O4 -OoCONSTPROP)
> 241,010,289 bytes - lazarus.exe
>
> (-a -O4 -OoCONSTPROP)
> 235,655,062 bytes - lazarus.exe
>
> Anyone else noticed this? Logically, shoudn't the EXE files be 
> completely identical?
>
> Gareth aka. Kit
>
>
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