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From: dmason AT scs DOT ryerson DOT ca (Dave Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Unused functions & slow linking?
Date: 16 May 1996 22:58:05 GMT
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnic University
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In article <199605160312 DOT XAA07094 AT delorie DOT com> dj AT delorie DOT com (DJ Delorie) writes:

> > Would it be a good idea to support function level linking ?
> 
> Not for V2's libc, since we already manually split up the source files
> to nearly eliminate unused functions from being linked in in the first
> place.  It's easier to write the code that way than to teach the
> linker to fix it for you.  Most code falls into one of two categories:
> 
> 1. Part of a library.  Manually split the code into many sources once,
>    and every user benefits.
> 
> 2. Part of an application.  Hey, you're going to use them all anyway
>    or you wouldn't have written them, right?

I presume this factorization into functions is the reason that the
linker is so slow.  It seems a *lot* slower than with V1.(13?).

.../Dave