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From: higgin@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Question about Alink
Message-ID: <247@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-May-86 13:54:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 15 13:54:04 1986
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In article <928@h-sc2.UUCP> wen_2@h-sc2.UUCP writes:
>
>Is it possible for those of us outside of West Chester and Los Gatos to use
>Alink to produce short executables?  For example, is it possible to link a
>"hello, world" to a less-than-10K executable, and how is this done?  I know
>it IS done, (look in c: for examples) but can I do it, too?
> 
>			A. Wen
>			wen@harvunxu.BITNET
>			wen%h-sc4@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
>	

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The programs written by Amiga were not linked using ALINK, nor were they
compiled under Lattice.  Some are BCPL programs, and others are compiled
on Sun computers under another compiler.

I would guess that the current state of the libraries and the Lattice compiler
make it impossible to make "hello" in under 10K.

I'm not sure if using "puts()" instead of printf() might help, if such a
function exists under Lattice.

As I said before, hello.c compiles and links to 4720 bytes under Aztec C.

To re-iterate on size, a friend re-wrote the echo command in assembler, and
it was less than 30 bytes!!!!

	Regards,
		Paul Higginbottom

Disclaimer: I do not work for Commodore, and my opinions are at least my own.