Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!chuq
From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How smart is THINK C?
Keywords: THINK C, Smart Linking
Message-ID: <31144@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 May 89 22:10:43 GMT
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>So, I put a few functions into a source file, call only one of them from
>the main program, and look at the result. Nope, all the code is there,
>even the totally unused functions.

>What is the granularity of 'smart linking'? One function? One source file?

In your source file, the granularity is the file. (which makes sense,
actually. If you create an arbitrary CODE resource it may not be possible
for the linker to know whether the code is in use or not).

If you take that same source file and make it a library, though, when you
link it in to your project and build an application only the routines needed
will be in there, since the ambiguity isn't there.


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