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From: dms@cs.arizona.edu (David Michael Shackelford)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Problem with constants in Turbo Pascal unit
Summary: TP links the ENTIRE unit automatically!
Message-ID: <208@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 90 06:47:59 GMT
References: <90096.105600TBC101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <90096.105600TBC101@psuvm.psu.edu>, TBC101@psuvm.psu.edu (TomShark Collins) writes:
> I'm having a problem with Turbo Pascal 5.5 and it's inclusion of
> constants in my programs.  I have a unit (Fonts) that contains 12
> constants (arrays 4k in size).  When I just have 'Uses Fonts' in one of
> my programs, everything is ok, it doesn't link the fonts.  If I use any
> reference to just one of the fonts, all are included in the compiled
> program.  My questions are 'Why?' and 'How do I get Turbo to not include

Turbo Pascal uses the unit as the minimum size of linked information.  The
only method I can think of to fix your problem is to have a seperate unit
for each font -- really ugly, no?  An alternative method would be to create
a file/files containing your fonts, and load the appropriate one into a 
single array.  The file would have to contain the binary representations.

Dave.  | dms@cs.arizona.edu