From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,cb9e1ed8412da744
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail
From: tmoran@acm.org
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Typical handling of packages through compilers
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:06:49 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID: <h47rgp$c9a$1@aioe.org>
References: 
 <3ca6c026-9269-4228-be95-1b7d6adf6131@h11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: +ERTOT2Y9KJRZ8n+NpAZGA.user.aioe.org
X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org
X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.9
X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader
Cancel-Lock: sha1:FBYOa1oHBjTKP9z0gCRtC6cOAPk=
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7280
Date: 2009-07-22T20:06:49+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

> It's the lack of a proper smart linking in the GNU linker. This
> technique is in use since more than 20 years in other systems - e.g.:
> Turbo Pascal and, later, Delphi. It seems also that Janus has it (or
> at least an old version had it).
  Janus has smart linking.  Janus Ada started life on DOS machines, where
size mattered.  But Randy can tell you more.