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From: desnoyer@apple.com (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: linking gcc object files on vax/vms
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Date: 7 Jul 89 22:39:53 GMT
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In article <2686@daimi.dk> mkemi@jupiter.dk (Morten Kjeldsgaard) writes:
>  I link my 1 block .OBJ file 
> like this:
>    $ link hello, sys$library:vaxcrtl/lib
> and the resulting executable is 87 blocks!! A bit excessive for the most
> minimal program possible! 

Your link probably took a good fraction of a CPU minute, as well. 
I seem to remember (it's been over two years since I touched VMS) that 
you can link with a shareable image, with the result that your link will 
take mere seconds and your  executable will be little bigger than your 
.OBJ file.

The more I think of it, the more I think that
  $link hello /share=sys$library:vaxcrtl.exe
will work. (or maybe sys$share instead of sys$library.) 

                                      Peter Desnoyers
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