Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a665
From: a665@mindlink.UUCP (Anthon Pang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: RE: How to make libraries smaller?
Message-ID: <1905@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 90 18:50:09 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> DUG@CZHETH5A.BITNET writes:
> 
>     -< Smart linker >-
> 
>     The Logitech Linker V3.0 and later does intelligent linking from
>     all imported modules, e.g. only code actually referenced is included
>     in the final .EXE file. Linking is just an implementation feature
>     and not a question of Modula2 or C.

The problem with the Logitech Linker is all the interdependency of the standard
modules on nonstandard ones...the result is that the optimized size isn't much
smaller than the unoptimized size of a portable M2 program.