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From: Gautier.DeMontmollin@maths.unine.ch (Gautier)
Subject: Re: Looking for a smart linker for GNAT/DOS
Date: 1997/04/29
Message-ID: <1997Apr29.091459.5929@news>#1/1
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Date: 1997-04-29T00:00:00+00:00
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> The OS/2 version of GNAT is distributed in 8 floppy-sized
> files, 3 of which contain the actual compiler and runtime
> library. (The rest is for development utilities, debugger
> etc.) The compiler itself fits on a single floppy.

The floppy question obviously doesn't concern the compiler, but
the produced executables! 

In an example above in this discussion, there were a non smartly
linked scientific program using a few of the thousends of LAPACK
routines. Imagine you want to distribute or sell a set of programs
of that sort. Even compressed, the executables will take tens of
diskettes and occupy too many megas in the destination HD.

G.