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From: richw@rosevax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: MSC Linking and Libraries
Message-ID: <3195@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 10:27:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 10:27:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 18:41:34 EST
Organization: Rosemount Inc., Eden Prairie, MN
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Keywords: MSC

I have some questions about the MSC linker and compiler I
hope someone can answer.

1) Does the MSC linker link an entire library to an object file
or does it extract only the functions actually used by the
object code?

2) Why is the executable size of program so much larger
than the object file size? The De Smet compiler I've used seems to
produce much smaller executables than MSC.

3) If the MSC linker does link in an entire library are there
programs which will remove unused library functions.

Thanks in advance,
Rich W