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From: ericp@beach.csulb.edu (Eric Pederson  CSE)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Another Clipper EXE question!
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.033623.25098@beach.csulb.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 03:36:23 GMT
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In article <1991Jan30.200312.1787@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca> timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) writes:
>In article <H*!&|=_@rpi.edu> mcintyre@cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) writes:
>>Can someone explain to me why the heck the following program (which prints
>>out an ascii table) is 159K when compiled with Clipper S87?
>
>[...program deleted...]
>
>>I guess the linker is including all of Clipper's library, huh?  
>
>yep. 
>
>>Does a better linker fix this?
>
>I've used Borland's linker ( version 1.0 or 1.1 I think), and the final 
>code is still big. At least it gets done faster though. 
>

No matter what linker you use, your Clipper S87 EXE size will be big.
The entire CLIPPER.LIB has to go into the file.  I recommend BLINKER
for development use since it is a fast incremental linker (I compile and
link ~600K applications in 22 seconds if one source file was modified).
It also does dynamic overlaying pretty decently.

The new .RTlink Plus 4.1 has a lot of bells and whistles but is very
hard to use with Clipper S87.  I eventually want to convert to Clipper
5.0 but I (like the rest of the world) am waiting for it to settle down
as far as bugs are concerned.

Eric Pederson - CSULB
ericp@beach.csulb.edu

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