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From: coy@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stephen B Coy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Languages for an Apple //e - //c (was P-Code Systems)
Summary: a minor nit about printf...
Keywords: Just TRY buying one.
Message-ID: <2693@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 89 21:39:40 GMT
References: <1373@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <1373@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>, toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Joseph G. Toth Jr.) writes:
> All this additional code is added (in many cases, even
> if it is not needed - A guy I work with bought Aztec 'C' anf compiled
> a program with a single procedure that did 'printf ( "Hi" );', this one
> stament program compiled to approximately a 4K byte program - no disk I/O
> or any other functions).

printf() is a BIG function.  Try the same code on another system and
look at the size.  My guess is that 4K will all of a sudden seem
tiny.  Just for a sanity check I tried it on a couple of machines.
VAX running BSD v? ~9k, Compac 286 running MS-DOS and Microsoft C
v5.? with full optimization ~7k.

> Maybe I shouldn't have done it, sarcasm is so   | Joseph G. Toth Jr.
> seldom understood.  Don't FLAME on me, please.  | uunet!tellab5!toth

Stephen Coy
uw-beaver!ssc-vax!coy