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Date: 12 Sep 91 08:56:02 GMT
From: mcsun!cernvax!chx400!sicsun!disuns2!lglsun!gauthier@uunet.uu.net  (Michel
 Gauthier)
Subject: Small sources, great units
Message-ID: <1991Sep12.105602@lglsun.epfl.ch>
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

   Some people say that link editor limitations don't imply Ada limitations, ap
plying the principle "you must write small sources, and they produce only small
 link segments".

   THAT'S FALSE !

   Maybe my use of genericity is not elementary, but it's Ada spirit. I got rec
ently a 100Kbyte link segment (link edition failed) with only :
 - a unit of about 120 lines (a two-level block with exception handlers, and on
ly one statement at each node)
 - two units of about 120/80 lines (10/5 procedures, 10/5 couples of instanciat
ions, a sequence of 10/5 calls)
 - a final library instanciation

   There is no reason why good styled small Ada units couldn't lead to a unique
 link segment of millions of bytes.

   PLEASE GIVE US UNLIMITED LINK EDITORS

Michel Gauthier / EPFL (Federal Swiss Institute of Technology)