Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ziebmef!mdfreed
From: mdfreed@ziebmef.uucp (Mark Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Reflections on TC2.0, or ... "Impulse Buying"
Message-ID: <1989Feb2.124026.5540@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 2 Feb 89 17:40:25 GMT
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Reply-To: mdfreed@ziebmef.UUCP (Mark Freedman)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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   (larger Turbo C 2.0 object files)
    Turbo C 2.0 incorporates dependancy information into the object file.
I don't believe that this can be defeated with the current release.
    In my experience, the EXE files are about the same size as for 1.5
once the debugging information is removed (by recompiling with the proper
options, or by running TDSTRIP, which comes with the "Professional" package).
   
   According to Al Stevens' "C Programming" column in Dr. Dobbs' Journal
(January 1989), TLIB has an undocumented switch (/0) which removes this
information from library modules. He also mentions that Borland will be
posting a utility to strip the extra information from OBJ files, and that
the next release will incorporate "no dependancy information" as an option.