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From: maa@nbires.nbi.com (Mark Armbrust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: the MS-DOS volume label
Summary: runtime library is a pig
Keywords: runtime library
Message-ID: <421@nbires.nbi.com>
Date: 30 Jun 89 15:22:08 GMT
References: <8002@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Reply-To: maa@nbires.UUCP (Mark Armbrust)
Organization: NBI Inc, Boulder CO
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In article <8002bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mdlawler@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Mike Lawler) writes:
>
> ... but a program over 10 K to do this simple task is absurd.

Not if it's written in C; the runtime library makes even the simplest C program
quite big.  For example, using MSC 5.1 the following program generates a
7233 byte .EXE file:

main(){
    printf ("Hello world\n");
}

Also, any program that contains help text grows very quickley.
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Mark Armbrust
maa@nbires.nbi.com
maa@nbires.UUCP