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From: David.Vazquez@f1.n396.z1.fidonet.org (David Vazquez)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: is modula2 available
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Date: 7 Aug 90 20:31:52 GMT
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 AP> running on
 AP> the 3000.  To quote Mr Frenkel, "It's already the best development system
 AP> around"...take it for what you will (I call it boasting :).  But, I doubt
 AP> there's a new version of the compiler.

     Can you ask if there will be a new version of the linker?  The current 
linker insists on importing the entire contents of an OBM file into the final 
executable, even if only one PROCEDURE is used in it (ex:  you IMPORT 
OpenScreen FROM Intuition; the compiler does just fine, but the linker brings 
in everything else).  This adds alot of unnecessary weight to programs.
     A friend of mine has found a way to get around this by writing his own 
bindings for some of the libraries.  He hasn't taught me yet, and this does 
seem a bit inconvinient when TDI's Modula-2 linker handled all this stuff 
correctly.
     Thanks in advance for a reply.
  
  -Dave.



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