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From: cowan@east.alsys.com (Ken Cowan)
Subject: Re: Executable File Size Differences
Date: 1996/10/01
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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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