From:	sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Making Libraries
Date:	Wed, 08 Jul 1998 00:02:53 GMT
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Destination: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Gruber Gerhard
Group: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:03:56 +0300 (IDT):

>I think you are mistaken.  The LFN-related code is not some separate
>module, it is built into the low-level libc functions.  And its
>overhead is much, much less than you seem to imply: usually, it boils
>down to testing a variable and using a different function of Int 21h
>depending on whether LFN is or isn't supported.
>
>The only other stuff that is linked into every DJGPP program is the
>startup code and support memory and I/O functions.  They total about
>18KB.

I didn't look in the code so I don't know what takes how much memory. BUt I
think that the libc is pretty heavilly used, isn't it? Depends on how much
programs one has compiled with DJGPP, though.

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   Gerhard

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