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From: kaiser@hillst.dec.com (Systems Consultant; DTN 297-4445)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Vax C Sucks Wind
Message-ID: <8802241246.AA25467@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 24 Feb 88 15:41:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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decwrl!decvax!ucbvax!WISDOM.BITNET!aharon writes, in part:

	We are in the process of porting a very large system from Vax pascal to
	C...  the C objects are between 5 and 10 times larger than the Pascal
	objects ...  what was a 5000 block image (compiled and linked with
	debug) under pascal, is now 40000 blocks.

What you need to know, at a guess, is how to link with the sharable runtime
library.  Just as a hint, one of the sentences on page 15-3 of my copy of the
manual "Programming in VAX C", in a section headed "Using the VAX C RTL as a
Shareable Image", says in part:

	You drastically reduce the size of a program's executable image...

When all else fails, read the documentation.  [Acerbic comment on reading skills
omitted here.]

---Pete

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