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Eric Penn <stupid@crl.com> wrote:
>P.Bennett (bennett@erich.triumf.ca) wrote:
> >Borland and Microsoft very nicely put the math functions in the main library,
> >so you don't have to worry about this nonsense - MS-DOS _does_ have some
> >advantages  :-)
>
>Wow!  Sure is nice to know that you can get bloated object modules with all
>sorts of unneeded math calls included - by default!  Sure hope they have a
>really spiffy linker and global optimizer to weed out all that extra code....

I see you have done little or no DOS-based development.  For about 15 years
now, most DOS-based linkers only include objects from the library that are
referenced in the program.  Second, most of the latest crop of linkers for
windows reference dynamic libraries where the object code is not included
in the executable at all.  You don't get bloated programs, but rather trim
ones.

Also please note, several of the latest UNIXes are also using the same
idea in the linker -- include only those statically linked objects that
are referenced by the code.  These same linkers have configuration files
that can set the list of libraries to search by default, so now you can
automatically have the math library, curses & termlibs, and so on
included without specifying them on the command line, and since only
objects referenced are included, not worry about bloated programs.





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