🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <90273.111443UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>, UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
writes:
|> From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
|> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
|> Subject: Re: Writing small code in SAS/C 5.10
|> 
|> 
|> >Also, the main program itself is not the culprit, it is the linking process
|> >that increases your size.
|> 
|> 
|> Another thing that increases the final code size, at least in Lattice 4.01,
|> is the "startup code."  Before your main() gets executed, a program called
|> _main() is executed.  It is moderately large.
|> 
|> _main() sets up the WorkBench message port, parses the command line, and
|> other stuff like that.  You probably don't need it all.  You can find the
|> source to _main(), edit out the parts yopu don't need, and use it instead
|> of the general purpose original.
|>                                 lee
|> 

I've needed to hack up c.a a few times, and was wondering if it's was
legal to include the modified source (called myc.a or something) with
PD distributions which include source?

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