Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/26/11:19:37
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com wrote:
> ~40bytes * >1600modules ~~ >64K call it 80K? IFF you include the entire
I got bashed more than once for adding much less (circa 5K) to a function
that gets linked into every DJGPP program. So much for perspective and
scale.
> You do the exercise, I already have in order to convince 250 programmers here
> at Bloomberg! The savings in headache and debugging to track the fact that
> someone forgot to add the new version of module 'X' to the library before
> linking or forgot to move the latest executable to production is worth almost
> any overhead!
Cool down, in our case only a single person (DJ) releases the library.
Anybody else (like me) who patches their own version, does so on their
own responsibility (and yes, I have my private version management
procedures too).
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