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.
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[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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