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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How smart is THINK C?
Keywords: THINK C, Smart Linking
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Date: 19 May 89 23:00:14 GMT
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In article <826@key.COM> perry@arkon.key.COM (Perry The Cynic) writes:

	[Asks about smart linking]

	In LightspeedC, the smart-linking is granular to one source or
library file. This means that ifan entry in a project is a project
consisting of multiple files (such as MacTraps), only those library
units that are referenced are linked in a build time.

	It's noticed most for MacTraps, stdio, and other large
standard libraries where not everything is used (although, stdio
is so spaghetti-ized that most everything gets dragged in anyway.:-( ).

	In Lightspeed Pascal, the situation is much the same, except that
libraries that are built from multi-file projects are smart-linked
down to their component files, in much the same manner as C projects
described above.

		--Rich


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