Re: Smart linking under UNIX

>>>>> On 22 Aug 91 17:48:29 GMT, weitek!ars@Sun.COM (Allen Samuels)
          complained that simple routines include complicated routines like sprintf:
Allen> I/O library the sprintf library routine must be prepared to
Allen> handle all possible format strings (even messy ones like
Allen> floating point numbers). This "extraneous" code is what causes
Allen> the code bloat.


But the sprintf (_doprintf, really) bashing is misguided. Even the floating
point part of sprintf can be coded in a couple of pages of C, and the object
file size is not that big. It may have mattered on IBM PC or microcontrollers
but it is _nothing_ compared to, let us say, X libraries. I am sure that the
general idea is correct---if you try to link standalone executable images,
you will get code bloat. Yet another argument for shared libraries.




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przemek klosowski (przemek@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu)
Physics Department
University of Notre Dame IN 46556
[It's true. On my SysV machine, the entire shared libc is only 26K. The X
shared library is 213K. -John]
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