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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Modula2's godawful IO.
Message-ID: <1988Apr24.001640.2791@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <764@ndsuvax.UUCP> <535@m10ux.UUCP> <730@mhuxm.UUCP> <230@jupiter.olyis.UUCP>, <11154@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 88 00:16:40 GMT

> >Now include the size of the floating point libraries.  On Microsoft 5.0 C,
> >calling printf links the floating point emulator, which is about 30K of code.
> >...Not all the world is a vax, you know.
> 
> It is not difficult[*] to arrange for the linker to pull in a simple
> printf() if the rest of the program does not use floating point, and a
> full-blown floating point printf if it does...

In fact, if your C implementation has a limited address space and a bulky
floating-point library and does NOT do this, complain to the implementors.
It's not a novel or strange idea.  The very first C implementation, on the
pdp11, used this trick.  If Microslop can't be bothered, don't buy their
compiler.
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