From: cowan@east.alsys.com (Ken Cowan)
Subject: Re: Executable File Size Differences
Date: 1996/10/01
Date: 1996-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DyLoy8.C0u@thomsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52o1a8$fre@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
In article <52o1a8$fre@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) wrote:
>Stanley Allen <sallen@ghgcorp.com> writes:
>
>>The problem is an old one: the lack of "smart linkers" which
>>would include only the necessary code from an Ada package, and
>>avoid linking in the unused bulk that never gets invoked.
>
>C doesn't have this either, nor do any of the C++ compilers I have used.
Both Visual C++ and ObjectAda for Windows have a smart linker. If you
have a source file containing hundreds of subprograms but only call
one of them, then only that one gets included into the image.
KC
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-25 0:00 Executable File Size Differences Robert P. Kuzmicki
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Georgi Savov
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Stanley Allen
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Ken Cowan [this message]
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Stanley Allen
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Ada 95 - Performance vs. Pervasiveness (was: Executable File Size Diff Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Executable File Size Differences Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-06 0:00 ` John Howard
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Simon FitzMaurice
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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1996-09-28 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Tony Picarello
1996-09-29 0:00 tmoran
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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