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From: garyb@crpmks.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MASM Linker question
Message-ID: <1123@crpmks.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 90 11:52:50 GMT
Reply-To: garyb@crpmks.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein)
Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
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Could someone offer a plausible explaination as to why the linker
is so much bigger than MASM.EXE?  My guess is that the linker needs
more workspace than the assembler (but for what?).  Another guess
is that it must somehow link object code with routines in DOS when
programming with interrupts, therefore there might be "libraries" 
built in to the linker making it larger?

Am I totally off base here?  Does anybody know?

- gb
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Gary M. Blumenstein, UNIX Network Administrator // CIBA-GEIGY Corporation USA
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