[fpc-pascal] What's in Hello World

[Jonas Maebe]

On 07/01/2024 13:21, Ingemar Ragnemalm via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Just for comparison, I fired up Think Pascal and made Hello world!
> 
> Plain Hello world, closes so quickly that you don't have time to see it: 
> 4625 bytes.
> 
> Including ShowText and while not Button do; 4639 bytes.
> 
> Yes, less than 5k! Progress?

You forgot the 1MB Mac ROM :)

That's also the main difference between C and FPC: C programs by default 
are dynamically linked, so all of the standard RTL functionality that 
gets linked into an FPC program is not there in a C program most of the 
time.

It's also why golang programs are larger: those are statically linked as 
well.


Jonas