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From: stan@amiga.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Question about Alink
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Date: Fri, 16-May-86 18:38:57 EDT
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In article <928@h-sc2.UUCP> wen_2@h-sc2.UUCP (A. Wen) 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?
> 

	The problem is that you are linking in the Lattice C run time
	library.  In order to avoid this (and thus have a much smaller
	hello world) you need to do two things.  First link with Astartup
	(vs. LStartup) and second remove lc.lib from the list of libraries
	that you link with.

	While this will achieve the smaller program size, there are a few
	caveats you be be aware of.  1)  Most of the "standard" C functions
	are not available.  2)  Printf is a kludge.  Be sure to always use
	the format %lx or %ld or %l...  3)  Use this at your own risk, it
	is the interface that was around before Lattice C and hasn't beeen
	touched in ages.

	Hope this helps.