Christo Crause via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am Fr., 31. Dez. 2021, 16:58:
> 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. > The internal ELF linker isn't enabled by default. But using -a switches to the external assembler instead of the internal one and there the same point holds true that slightly different binary files are generated. Regards, Sven >
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