Re: Looking for a smart linker for GNAT/DOS

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Fergus said

<<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.)
>>

But for most people, the ability to debug calls into the DLL does
constitute useful functionality. 

Look, it is only disk space we are talking about here, nothing else! Disk
space now costs as low as 6 cents/megabyte (that's the new 6.4 meg
IDE drive which costs $350 list) 

How can one get concerned over less than 25 cents of disk space.

Well that's not quite fair, notebooks are more limited, but even there,
2 gig disks are getting pretty standard, and 3 gig disks are now available.