Hello Murray!

18 Jan 99 15:48, Murray Lesser wrote to Francois Thunus:

 FT>> ...out of curiosity, how big would be the executable ? I'll write the

 ML>     When compiling TOUPPER.PLI as written, and linking with ILINK as
 ML> noted above, the executable code comes out at 1296 bytes.  Of course,
 ML> this example is misleading because it is dynamically linked to the PL/I
 ML> runtime DLLs, which are always in residence in my system.

small.

 ML>     If I recompile the same source code for static linking (to
 ML> include the runtime in the executable), it grows to 72000 bytes

big :-)

 ML> linking will run 2 to 5 KB.  I usually compile a new program for static
 ML> linking as part of the development process, because the run-time error
 ML> checking seems to be more complete and errors have shown up that were
 ML> hidden in the dynamically linked executable.

any specific reason for that ??

 ML>   Of course, when I am satisfied with the utility, I recompile and
 ML> relink it for dynamic linking to save disk space.

sure. I also have 2 sets of compiling options, one for debug and one for
production, like everyone does, I imagine.

 ML>     Hope this helps,

most interesting, indeed. thanks.


                             -= Francois =-
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