Il giorno ven, 31/12/2021 alle 17.32 +0200, Christo Crause ha scritto: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 4:41 PM Marco Borsari via fpc-devel > <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > on Linux with FPC 3.2.2 the executable size of programs compiled > > with > > fpc -On -a (tried with n 2 or 4) > > is smaller than when the assembler files are deleted (-a omitted). > > Does it is an expected behaviour? > > > > > Using any of the -a options (not sure about -a5?) to output assembly > also automatically switches to an external linker (for targets with > internal linkers). Differences in the executables are thus > attributable to differences in generated output between the internal > and external linkers.
Thank you for the clarification
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