[fpc-pascal] Executable size question

[Florian Klaempfl]

Pianoman wrote:

> Helo everyone, I would like to ask why are exes generated by FPC so big?
> Simple writeln('Hi'); has about 28 KB. Old FPC 1.0.0 for example  created
> for the same code only 14 kb exe.
> What Should I do to reduce the file size (without compression)

Use 1.0.10 ;)
2.x simply has new features which make executables bigger.

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>>Message: 1
>>Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:09:21 -0700
>>From: L505 <fpc505 at z505.com>
>>Subject: [fpc-pascal] const pchar parameters?
>>To: FPC-Pascal users discussions <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
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>>When using pchars, what happens when one does this:
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>>function test(const input: pchar): integer;
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>>Is this a pointer to a pchar? Or is it just a pchar?
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>>i.e. below is bad:
>>function test(var input: pchar): integer;
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>>So what about a const pchar paramater... Is it a read only pchar, or a
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> read only
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>>pointer to a pchar?
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>>Message: 2
>>Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:17:20 +0100
>>From: Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>
>>Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] const pchar parameters?
>>To: FPC-Pascal users discussions <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
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>>On 31 Dec 2005, at 19:09, L505 wrote:
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>>>When using pchars, what happens when one does this:
>>>
>>>function test(const input: pchar): integer;
>>>
>>>Is this a pointer to a pchar? Or is it just a pchar?
>>
>>It can be either of those. The compiler is free to choose what it
>>does. All you know for sure is that when you try to assign something
>>to "input", the compiler will throw an error.
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>>x
>>Jonas
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>>Message: 3
>>Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:33:45 +0000
>>From: Tony Pelton <tpelton at gmail.com>
>>Subject: [fpc-pascal] XML DOM stuff
>>To: FPC-Pascal users discussions <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
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>>hi all,
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>>i've been toiling over the DOM implementation with the FCL for a few hours
> 
> now.
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>>i had successfully used the XMLRead code to load a DOM from an XML file.
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>>i had successfully mutated said document and used XMLWrite to persist
>>those changes to the DOM.
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>>i've now been beating my head against the wall trying to figure out
>>how to build a DOM "from scratch" in code.
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>>My trouble begins because it would seem that i don't get a "well
>>formed" document by doing a straight "Create()" of an TXMLDocument.
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>>i've been digging around inside of the XMLRead code for a bit, trying
>>to understand what _it_ does to get a document going from an XML
>>source file.
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>>it's confusing to me.
>>
>>i see some casting and subclassing inside of the XMLRead code that
>>seems to allow for the creation of a well formed TXMLDocument, but i
>>don't see anything that leads me to a well formed API or "factory" for
>>being able to instantiate an "empty" but well formed XML document
>>myself.
>>
>>minimally, i'm having problems because i can't see how to get a
>>DocumentElement attached to the DOM instance via a user serviceable
>>API call.
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>>so i can't attach any new elements to the document after a Create().
>>
>>what am i missing ?
>>
>>tia,
>>Tony
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