Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!utrcu1!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer From: klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 09:31:57 GMT References: <9864@star.cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@utrcu1.UUCP Organization: University of Twente, BSC-El Lines: 22 In <9864@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: Discussion about how to hack in some non-standard items to conforming programs. >Things like std_err and printk etc were devised to fight bloat. Using the >new ANSI compiler and libraries, some programs have increased 6-fold in >size due to the ANSI requirements. My solution is to avoid stdio where >it is not really needed, and use things like std_err. I don't want all >the binaries exploding in size because that will greatly increase the >number of disks in the distribution, hence the price. How about shared libraries? This will cut back the size of all executables. Machines without a MMU and/or a limited address space could load the requiered routines at run time as static copies. This wont save ram when running but does save disk space (which is also a valuable resource!) Klamer -- Klamer Schutte Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl {backbone}!mcsun!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer