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From: Gautier.DeMontmollin@maths.unine.ch (Gautier)
Subject: Re: Looking for a smart linker for GNAT/DOS
Date: 1997/04/18
Date: 1997-04-18T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997Apr18.105627.5914@news> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.861310829@merv


dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

(...)
> It is certainly the case that in large programs, the elimination of unused
> subprograms would save a lot of code.
> 
> We are currently developing a tool that will in fact operate at the front end
> level and allow complete elimination of unused subprograms.

Wow! Will it be integrated into GNAT (gnatmake) ? 

>                                                             This will be
> useful on systems where the linker is not smart enough, which unfortunately
> is the great majority of systems (both Unix and DOS have traditions of very
> simple stupid linkers -- as far as I know, only AIX among standard Unix
> impementations has a linker that eliminates unused subprograms.

and Turbo Pascal linker among 16 bit DOS linkers...

G.





  reply	other threads:[~1997-04-18  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1997Apr15.202909.5879@news>
1997-04-16  0:00 ` Looking for a smart linker for GNAT/DOS Samuel Tardieu
1997-04-16  0:00   ` Gautier
1997-04-18  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-19  0:00       ` Geert Bosch
1997-04-22  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-28  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-19  0:00       ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-21  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-21  0:00           ` Gautier
1997-04-23  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-24  0:00               ` Gautier
1997-04-26  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-27  0:00                 ` Geert Bosch
1997-04-29  0:00                   ` Gautier
1997-04-21  0:00       ` Mats Weber
1997-04-23  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-21  0:00       ` Gautier
     [not found] ` <dewar.861173085@merv>
1997-04-17  0:00   ` Gautier
1997-04-17  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-18  0:00       ` Gautier [this message]
1997-04-19  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
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