Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!cs3b3aj
From: cs3b3aj@maccs.McMaster.CA (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Request info on PC C compilers
Summary: Linkers
Keywords: Linkers, Borland, Microsoft
Message-ID: <2496@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 22 Apr 89 04:37:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.2496
References: <19500029@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> <1252@infmx.UUCP> <4789@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: cs3b3aj@maccs.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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In article <4789@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes:
>In article <1252@infmx.UUCP> kevinf@infmx.UUCP (Kevin Franden) writes:
>}named differently, and of course borlant has their _own_ .lib format so you
>}have to use their linker.
>
>This is not true.  I used MS-LINK to link NetHack 1.4 after compiling with
>TC 1.0, because of a bug in TLINK that insisted all of the segments in
>class 'DATA' had to fit in 64K (which they don't have to in HUGE model).

   Have you tried a more recent version of Tlink (if you can find one)?
Just in case they've fixed that?

   As for linking, I've used three linkers (in various versions):  Plink86
Plus (as supplied by Nantucket with Clipper), Microsoft's LINK, and Borland's
Tlink.  I found LINK to be several times faster than Plink, and Tlink to be
2-3 times faster than LINK, when linking Clipper code.  I don't know how
this comparison fares with other languages, but I'd imagine that similar
results would be found.

   By the way, I once tried Tlink 1.0 with Lattice C 3.10, and it wouldn't
work.  This was a couple of years ago, so I don't remember the exact
problem, but Tlink produced an EXE that would hang the machine; LINK
took the same files and created a working EXE.  Other than that, though,
I've never had any problems with Tlink.

DISCLAIMER:  I have no affiliation with any of the companies whose products
   are mentioned above.
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