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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Looking for a smart linker for GNAT/DOS
Date: 1997/04/19
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G. asks

Wow! Will it be integrated into GNAT (gnatmake) ?

  Yes, it will be integrated into gnatmake or some higher level harness

and Turbo Pascal linker among 16 bit DOS linkers...

  I was talking about general purpose linkers. You will find quite a few
  special purpose language specific linkers that can do this. For example,
  many of the old Alsys compilers have specialized binder/linker software
  that eliminated unused subprograms.

  The trouble with doing it generally is that most object formats are not
  well set up to accomdate this processing at link time.