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to: BRYAN SMITH
from: GARY WEINFURTHER
date: 1996-06-05 09:47:00
subject: Uses `unit`

Bryan Smith mentioned this to Gary Weinfurther:
 BS> Are you sure ?  The way that the most trivial program that uses a visual
 BS> component jumps to at least 250k or so in size certainly creates the
 BS> impression that the Turbo Pascal smart linker has become an extinct
 BS> species.
The problem is that the linker can only remove a procedure if no other 
procedure calls it.  Because of the hierarchy of the VCL, it is rare that a 
procedure is uncalled, even if your application itself does not call it 
explicitly.
                                ...Gary
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