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From: dillon@PAVEPAWS.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: printf() code size using Astartup.obj and AMIGA.LIB only
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Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 12:59:56 EDT
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>What you've just done is pretty useless.  You could just as well use puts()
>for that.  printf() is "print FORMATTED".  Give us some REAL examples, that
>actually do some formatting, to see whether or not the code size increases
>(in other words, whether or not the compiler is smart enough not to include
>the formatting routines it doesn't need).  I'm guessing, but I'd expect
>code size to increase (I don't have my Amiga yet, so I can't test it
>myself).
>Brent

	Dummy, how does the linker know you aren't printf()'ing any 
formatted stuff?  it doesn't... it has to include the code anyway.  
Thus:

main(){printf("%ld %8lx\n", 20, 30);}

code size = 2392

	up 16 bytes from 2376 (the extra text)

	satisfied?

			-Matt