From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,364dfbdf0a113a56 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Looking for a smart linker for GNAT/DOS Date: 1997/04/19 Message-ID: <5japt1$rt8@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 235974720 References: <1997Apr15.202909.5879@news> <1997Apr16.162852.5886@news> Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > Note for example that the DLL that comes with Cygwin is pretty big, > several megabytes, since it contains huge amounts of functionality. Nope, the DLL that comes with Cygwin is several megabytes only because it contains huge amounts of *debugging information*. I haven't built a version of cygwin.dll without debugging information myself, but I've heard that without debugging info it is less than half a megabyte (somewhere between 300 and 400k, if I remember correctly.) -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.