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From: rodman@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Steve Roderick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: RTlink or Plink
Message-ID: <110000001@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 28 Sep 90 17:06:21 GMT
References: <1990Sep27.113453.20741@cs.umu.se>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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/ hpcvlx:comp.os.msdos.programmer / erikt@aragorn.cs.umu.se /  4:34 am  Sep 27, 1990 /
> I'm looking for opinions about the above overlay linkers. If you have
> used any of these, please let me know if you liked the product or not.
> 
> Can any, or both, of them handle overlays with pointers to functions?
> The MSC linker doesn't handle this. Are they fast? (Compared to MS)

	I have used both of these. I was unable to get PLink86+/LTO to work well
	with our product. If you let LTO generate a link file it works but needs
	major revision to achieve acceptable performance. This is non-trivial!
	RTLink works great and does everything we wanted it too including pointers
	to functions. (both support pointers to functions). Unfortunately RTLink
	has absolutely the worst technical support I have ever dealt with. If the
	people on the phone can't help you they will get back to you (someday or
	maybe never!!) no joke! You will never talk to a technical person EVER!
	Once we came across a problem three days before we planned to ship. I 
	explained this to them and they said the would call back promptly. They
	never called at all. You tend to end up solving your own problems. When
	I commented on this they got IRATE!
	Anyways flames aside it is the better product and we are currently using
	it. They have a new version coming out which supports Virtual Paging of
	Overlay Code and Data. (not memory space!) I'm a little unsure about how
	great this will work. We will see.....

	Performance is directly related to your overlay structure. Size of overlays,
	performance of disk, etc.

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Stephen Roderick
rodman@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com
Pacific Crest Software
Corvallis OR

(I just call 'em as I see 'em)
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