Xref: utzoo comp.software-eng:2609 comp.misc:7578 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde!uunet!aplcen!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!well!jef From: jef@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.misc Subject: Re: Coding standards (was Re: Programmer productivity) Message-ID: <14836@well.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 89 00:38:33 GMT References: <1989Dec5.152225.25770@twwells.com> Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 19 In the referenced message, bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) wrote: }In article <9185@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes: }: WHAT? What year is this? I don't think I've ever used a linker that }: didn't eliminate unused routines. Any such linker would be seriously }: brain damaged. } }Most linkers will not take, from a single object file, just those }routines needed by the rest of the program. Tim is (almost certainly) wrong that he has never used such a brain damaged linker, since every Unix linker is brain damaged in this fashion. However, T. Bill is wrong that most linkers have this brain damage, since pretty much every NON-Unix linker works correctly. --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!jef "Kirk to Enterprise -- beam down Yeoman Rand and a six-pack."