Re: Looking for a smart linker for GNAT/DOS

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

Gautier says

<<- Are RAM space and speed not indirectly concerned by the size of
  actually loaded blocks of EXE's or DLL's ?
>>

no, if you don't load part of an EXE file into memory, you don't load it.
Now of course there are some systems which do not provide this kind of
mapping (though nearly all do for DLL's in effect). Certainly debugging
informatoin does NOT get loaded in any system I know of. So do not assume
that EXE size is related to working set requirements!

<<- The HD space grows, but the diskette space doesn't!
>>

Well if you still mess with diskettes (I barely use them any more), then
you certainly will be struggling these days, though pretty soon, there
should be diskettes with 100x capacity -- I hardly find it convincing that
we should restrict the functionality of modern software to accomdoate
obsolete technology!

After all, old software does not go bad, if you are happy with yesterdays
smaller software that fits on diskettes, by all means use it (I think you
can even get an RR Ada 83 compiler that will run from diskettes).