Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!ima!johnl From: johnl@ima.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Side note on linkers (Re: machine independent executables) Message-ID: <685@ima.ISC.COM> Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 10:08:54 EDT Article-I.D.: ima.685 Posted: Fri Aug 21 10:08:54 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 07:00:09 EDT References: <678@ima.ISC.COM> Sender: johnl@ima.ISC.COM Reply-To: harvard!seismo!geac!daveb (Dave Collier-Brown) Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star. Lines: 21 Approved: compilers@ima.UUCP In article <678@ima.ISC.COM> bct writes: > I was involved with the production of compilers related to the MUSS system. >...It was not advertised to the users that the compilers were not generating >native code, and the linker was doing a little more than linking. The same technique was used recently by Dave Hansen at Arizona, when his group realized that the compilers & assemblers both had partial resolvers which were duplicated in the linker. And that linking was really little more than a merge-sort. I tried the same trick and the linker ran faster than the system linker i was using... -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months. -- Send compilers articles to ima!compilers or, in a pinch, to Levine@YALE.ARPA Plausible paths are { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale | cca}!ima Please send responses to the originator of the message -- I cannot forward mail accidentally sent back to compilers. Meta-mail to ima!compilers-requebal